First, it is amazing what passes for "technical" these days. Programming in Excel, Lotus, dBase etc were fun once upon a time, but now it seems that everything has turned to shit and there are all kinds of idiots doing IT these days. Personally, I want to get far far away from any WINDOWS related IT, there are just too many bullshit artists in that market.

I learned a long time ago that TECHNICAL does not always mean more money. I don't need titles, I just need cash.

I had a friend however who didn't have a technical degree and who was trying to prove that he could do technical work by taking "technical" temp jobs, even though they paid less money than word processing.

While I made much more money than my friend, I have to say that his resume does look very impressive.