There was this little documentary I saw on Animal Planet (I think). The life of the piranhas. The seaons come and go along the Amazon river and its tributaries. You see, the birds eat the little piranhas. And the bigger pirahnas eat the birds if they fall into their realm. Ouch! The water would quickly turn into a little whirlpool of red while fishes were snapping on various parts of the bird - alive- in their feeding frenzy. Such hunger, or anger or revenge, I don't know. I was wondering what would kill these fishes then.... Soon the sky gets drier and the dust fill the air... Smallest tributaries quickly turn into small puddles with fishes gasping for air. That's the fate of it all. Fishes that do not know the seasons as they come. So it is, my friend, I gather that life in this urban society we live and work in is about the same. Jobs created now may probably not last the next few years. The internet bubble came and got busted. Many who studied IT looking to eat that pie are probably left with maintenance work, crawling under CEOs' and office workers' desks tying up cables. Likewise for student radiographers who came in with the hope of getting that hospital job even before getting that graduation papers. Times have changed. The workplace where I have been heading for a while now is also slowly drying up. It will still be there, of course. The advanced training is going to come from somewhere else where the specialists are. These experts will probably come and do a much better job at providing that service - providing high-end CT scans for emergency patients. An author has said this before, that Technology has overtaken the Expert. Put in another way, if the government decide to swap all the F14s to Stealth one day, only those who have been trained to fly stealth will get the jobs. So what if you have been trained to fly the F14s? Training and upgrading of skills is definitely such an important issue now in my industry. If you do not train up, be prepared to be trained by your student. I can safely bet that in these days, even managers, supervisors, and lecturers will have become out of touch with the technologies they have to buy for their department. They have to become increasingy dependent on the true experts - those who work the machines on the ground day and night - to provide the services. Meaning, who is less dispensable now? There is a season for everything under the sun. All is but vanity, and a chasing after the wind. Move on, and find your river that will never dry up.