It certainly does, TIS. My husband was laid off in the 1990's from a manufacturing job, went back to school and started all over again in IT. He felt that manufacturing in the Northeast was a dead career because all of the manufacturing was being sent overseas for cheaper labor. Guess what? After going back to school for his master's, starting all over again in a new career, working his way up from the bottom, many IT jobs are being sent overseas for cheaper labor!!!