@Words of Wisdom:
i was reading your post and i thought the exact same thing as katilian that "engineers and mathematicians" are "IT type positions. you're the one who didn't make it clear. i was quite shocked when i read your response.
i don't know what it means for a skill to have "commercial" value. my closest guess would be "realizing that doing program development as a primary source of living is just a job as tedious as being a cash register attendant, with a pay that doesn't seem to compensate for the amount of work and effort put in to develop that skill" translates into little commercial value since it doesn't "generate" other income for the developer himself.
so you can argue that, say, the idea behind youtube has commercial value, but the person(s) who implemented that idea added little commercial value to the original idea. this point is debatable, however, since without knowing what can or cannot be done by programmers shape the feasibility of many ideas in the first place. in terms of coming up with algorithms, say the algorithm has "commercial" value. i guess then, the coding of the algorithm does not. but to me programming includes the design of algorithms, not just coding. and even with coding, you can sell pieces of code. like development platforms or libraries. to me that's basically just pieces of code, but they still have commercial value.
anyway... you sound like someone who's frustrated at having written programs for too long... either that or you got disillusioned or decided to quit programming in college and do something entirely different, i have no idea. you have some very strange perspective on programming.
the Wii is an epidemic.
