Software Engineering: It's Job 1

So do you like your job as a software engineer? You should, at least according to an article in Money magazine, which pegs software engineering as the best job in the U.S. these days--even with outsourcing worries, eyestrain, and back, hand, and wrist problems. Demand is high because software engineers are needed in every part of the economy. The total number of software engineering jobs in 2004 was put at 800,050, a number forecasted to grow to 1,168,639 by 2014. And the average pay is $80,427. In particularly high demand are Release Engineers, who are responsible for builds, version control, and defect tracking.

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