I can see your logic, from what I see the IT market is becoming saturated. When I was at uni I had a lot of friends that were on computer science related courses. When I finish my course (Broadcast Engineering BTW) I got my job at the BBC the day before I graduated, but I don't know anyone from the IT courses that got a job immediately, in fact, I know of handful of guys who still haven't managed to find jobs in IT.
They all thought they'd be on 60K a year with a company BMW, I don't know of one person that actually acheived this. Last time spoke to one of them, he was a travelling server maintainance man, moving from basement to basement upgrading servers in the dead of night. From what I heard they'd almost been told that these cushy jobs where waiting for them, I suppose a lot can happen in 3 years. Sadly they graduated the wrong side of the millenium so they couldn't killing testing systems for Y2K compliance.

As for thinfourth2, I'd stick with the F-off big engines if I were you, they sound really cool!!!!