Don't get complacent though, Chris :). Technology is leverage and those who wield it (i.e. those closer to where the rubber meets the road) will have the potential to stay ahead of the game on average... though most will choose not to employ it.

Engineers can typically simply stay on-par with changing technology and in-effect be moving up market. What is changing fortunes right now is that innovation has stalled in software, and everyone is simultaneously catching up to the early innovators.

Once the market shifts to another platform/technology/methodology, we'll be kicking your ass again... by default. :).

That said, I'd love to have a gutsy sales guy in my corner as a mentor. Drop me a PM.