Software engineers future????

As all of you know that software field is bit down now and so many companies fired software employees from their jobs. IT professionals are now in a bit scary mood and now the only thought in their mind is to keep the job safe in hands.

Coming to the point why this situation occurred right now and what are the reasons behind the scene???.

There are some reasons like US economy became slow down and also there is a lot of budget effect on the software industry.

Now the time came to all software engineers to decide on their future!!!. Its time to think how to decrease dependency on the software industry.

The exact point is to look after for an alternative way to earn money and to survive in the future. The small message to software people is to start something on there own and not to depend only on there job and if they think there so many ways to explore the mind.