IT Unemployment is at an all time low of about
5%. Still one of the best fields in America.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=216402752 . Silicon Vally has IT unemployment over 10% but the rest of the country is still in great shape.
Oracle DBs are still highly paid, in demand and will be for quite some time. Boring work though but you can start close to $100k and make more then twice that if you're excellent.
If you want something really new that's going to change the industry think about
Flex, Adobe's new development platform. I'm seeing some stuff in a browser application that I've never seen before in cross platform coding.
The problem with college IT courses is that they're a few years behind reality unless you can find a college that's on the leading edge.
Network design is not moving as fast as coding platforms right now so colleges may have better courses.
Ever think about becoming a certified SEO? Some colleges offers courses.