What he says is true. A 26 year old economics major approached me yesterday here in Asia and revealed that in lieu of any obvious job he was making a play in to journalism and researching resident foreign sentiments of the local environs. I sort of shrank in horror that he would see journalism as a viable career path, but stranger things have happened.

The one potential escape our subculture has is remote work and the option of living in lower cost parts of the world. I'm here, and it's nice. If anyone wants such a job - permanent gig, frontend dev - I've got one going right now.