Many of us who started work in the 70s and 80s are approaching retirement. There will be a lot of opportunities for the younger workers coming along. We can encourage high school and college age students to consider IT as a career by allowing them to shadow us for a day or grant informational interviews to make it all more concrete in their minds. User groups could sponsor a career day for the local educational institutions. We don't have to wait for the employers to take the initiative to find new workers.