There has been a wee conversation going on in the ScotlandIS LinkedIn group. A very wee one, so lets spread it around.

Here is the question that Polly Purvis poses.

"What will the Software Graduates of 2009 do? "

Sounds a bit like the folk tune by Kirsty McColls dad - "what will ye dae when the works all gone and the fermer disnae need ye? "

When I graduated with my degree in Electronics back in the early 17th Century things were tough then as well. These days though the options for a new grad are so much better than they were back then. (yeh yeh I know - you kids today have never had it so good, when I was your age, we lived in a hole in the road, no shoes, string hadn't been invented etc etc)

Anyway - if you are coming out with a software degree, some ambition and no job then as far as I can figure out you should build yourself a website and go figure how to make money from it while the world decides whether or not it wants to employ you.

So if you are a young gun softy type get cracking. You'll catch the auld heids out, they are too busy remembering that recessions are dead hard and they will be far too busy watching payroll, cash flow and each other to notice you steal the ball.

So if the "fermer disnae need you" that's his problem. Start your own farm. Make it a virtual one and the auld heids won't even notice.