@p @Ishmael @meowski >I think software companies are the same way: people are crowding each other out of really obvious businesses, but the world's a really big place and everything in it goes through a hundred hands before it gets to yours, so a lot of lucrative niches go chronically under-served.

I can attest to that. People go into development and IT thinking they'll work somewhere where their program or their servers are the business, but there is much more demand for development and IT as support to other business. I got my start and the industry and bypassed the whole "call center" part of the career path by doing Office support for legal secretaries. No one interested in IT wants to study Microsoft Office to the level necessary to help the top level users of it, but there IS demand for it, and those who notice it will find themselves easily finding work where they will be considered invaluable.