Actually, 'hard core' programing jobs in general are drying up. Apparently they've all been sent to India...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-
So the stuff to learn now is 'Visual Basic' and 'MS Access' (the Office database language) so you can hack for your office manager...
I was a reasonably good Turbo Pascal programmer once... before 'Delphi' even existed. I suppose I'd have to learn all over again, by now. Never was much good at C or x86 assembler.