I bet there's a pile of 20 year olds with some jQuery and Rails under their belt, consider themselves a ninja rockstar, and this scenario won't happen to them cause jQuery rocks, and rails will be around forever and ever...
Guess what... you'll all be out of work in 10 years unless you work your ass off to keep up. The computing world is changing faster than I ever remember. We are entering a new computing paradigm faster than most people will be able to upgrade their skills. If you aren't hacking your iPad, and you don't build mobile apps, have no NLP or machine learning experience, and you aren't hacking away at Kinect in your spare time, then your livelihood is gravely in danger.
Guess what... you'll all be out of work in 10 years unless you work your ass off to keep up. The computing world is changing faster than I ever remember. We are entering a new computing paradigm faster than most people will be able to upgrade their skills. If you aren't hacking your iPad, and you don't build mobile apps, have no NLP or machine learning experience, and you aren't hacking away at Kinect in your spare time, then your livelihood is gravely in danger.
Welcome to the game.