Field saturation for Software Engineers?

[x30Jx]

So I am looking at university, planning ahead really, but I have been drawn back to my choice of a program? This is a question for everyone who has recently graduated / knows someone who has.

Do you have difficulty finding a job after you graduate?

I will hopefully be going in two years, after grade 12 and a victory lap.
Brief stories are cool.

[jbking]

I think there is the question of how picky is someone in trying to find work. If I had tried to find work in Chatham, Ontario, I think I may still be looking for work after graduating over 10 years ago as there isn't a lot of Software Engineer jobs there. In contrast, I think larger cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary are likely better places to find work if one is looking. Another angle is if you take an attitide like, "I will work for Microsoft or bust!" in terms of at which companies you'd work. I graduated in '97, fwiw.

It seems like you are a number of years away from this, ~6 years if you have 2 years of high school and 4 years of university though that can vary a little. I think if anyone tried to declare how easy or hard it would be to find work then, I'd submit that various past 6 year spans reveal massive differences as well as there being changes at institutions and global changes if one wants to look back over the past few decades. Could anyone in 1997 have predicted the world in 2003? How about predicting now from 2003? Things have changed a lot and that is merely looking back 12 years. I could guess now that Cloud computing will be a fad where Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others spend billions and eventually abandon this because there isn't enough adoption and the companies cannot keep taking heavy losses on these operations.

One could look back at the 1994-2000 time period as an example where Netscape had its first beta release in the fall of 1994 and in the following years would grow and become a company synonmous with the web. Now if you hear the name, you may wonder how we ever got to this point. Microsoft playing catch up, the release of Win95 and Win98 to go along with NT 4.0, it does seem like a long time ago now. Companies like Yahoo! and Amazon.com would be born and became for a time rather big deals on the web.