Dude, You're Getting Outsourced.

India's gain is, unfortunately, America's loss: Dell is opening 5,000 new jobs over there.

So let me get this straight: Over the past...what, 20 years(?) American-run or American-based companies have fired or shortened their workforce. Most of these jobs are considered "Middle America" jobs like autoworkers and clerical staff. The people who are fired are told that they need to find another skill or trade, but the way the job market is, that leaves either computers or fast food.

So if you're over 40, and you thought you had job security until retirement, you've just been handled a virtual stomach punch. You either have to hunker down and learn computers from scratch (assuming that you had little to no exposure at your old job) or bury your pride and work at the local Burger Flipper under a teenager that just made supervisor.

Let's say most of these people (regardless of their age) actually beat the odds, go to TESST and get a couple of certificates. They learn the trade. They begin to excel in either software or hardware (or both) in a few years. They get a decent job and start to believe in the American Dream again.

Then something like this happens. Even the jobs people said you had to work because those old jobs wouldn't last forever, these jobs immersed in infinite possibility that is technology, aren't immune.

So my question is: when all of these jobs finally get outsourced, what are Americans supposed to do?