Significant Life Changes

Well, all these years of working 80 to 120 hours per week (and some periods of working 3.5 weeks with no sleep non-stop) have finally caught up with me alas.
Since 1996 I've been working, on a slow week, at least 80 hours per week.
It has whittled away, and finally worn this person out.
Worse yet, the demands of myself combined with IT to be inhuman have contributed to losing touch with humanity on so many levels.
It's time for some major changes.
I only went into IT to provide a stable income for my family.
I have worked with computers since 1981, but never as intensely as from 1995 to 2003.
Instead of just being a job or even a career, it has become an entire "way of life" and it has consumed every waking hour, never allowing time with my family, disallows any close friends, and forbades time for myself, and continues to demand more and more, and gives back less and less each year.
I believe that IT is going the way of the electronics rage of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Now many of those engineers are salesmen at Radioshack (the ones that didn't change and adapt (many into IT).
I have helped contribute to this trend actually.
I used to get a lot of resistance from putting our QA and development and support offshore, but now, it's becoming an accepted practice.
According to various reports, 1/4 of companies in the US plan to outsource their IT departments using offshore resources starting 2004.
I believe that IT in it's current lucrative income incarnation,  will be all but gone from the US in 3-5 years.
Even India is now suffering IT recession because of being undercut by Russia and Asia, though India's quality is still far better (I used India for offshore, after evaluating the others when I was CTO and in other positions).
This is identical in trending to what we've seen with Japan undercutting US, then Japan being undercut by Asia.
That's not to say that IT will be "Dead" per se, just like electronics isn't "Dead" in the US, but it will radically change how much demand is in the US versus sent to other countries to save huge amounts in costs, and pay will dramatically change scales.
IT jobs will end up in two extreme tiers, with very high pay for the Phd's and innovators and "Everyone else" paying like Telco jobs and most of the in-between scale currently out there in the 60k to 120k range will likely all but disappear.
Telco job pay isn't "bad", but it's nothing compared to the "hay days".
Programmers have been complaining for years that their pay isn't increasing like the rest of IT.
Now they'll watch IT payscale and job availability (in the US) drop dramatically, and unfortunately they are not immune.
I know from experience what excellent work India programmers do.
You can get a programmer from there for $20/hr that would be $80-120/hr here in the states for the same caliber, and not have to deal with the "prima donna" attitude of so many stateside programmers.
And they (companies in India) have pretty much perfected (if you carefully select the correct companies) overcoming the issues related to the time, cultural, and language differences.
I don't think programming pay is going to tank as bad as IT (though I'm NOT sure about that) however I think the GROWTH of the number of programming positions available will continue to decline over the next 3-10 years significantly.
Only one thing might stop this trend.
Security issues.
If the US government decides the security risks of IT and software being overshore is too great a risk, they may enact laws that will (unnaturally) change what's happening.
But every time government steps in to interfere with natural capitalism trends, there are unforseen and serious consequences.
I don't think I can ever get myself completely away from computers. I've worked with them since I was 11, they are an innate part of my life, and that will never change.
However, I AM DETERMINED to reign in it's dominating control and being ALL of my life any more.
So, here's my tentative plans for bringing more balance to my life, and as fallback, to get control of my life instead of letting the IT world continue to control all of me as it has for the past 8 years.....

1> I am only going to worry about finishing two IT certifications, my Solaris (since it's half way done, I can't leave it that way), and the Java programmer cert (since I've always loved progamming since 1981).
2> Look into areas that make use of my abundant array of other skills in other areas (photography, automotive, outdoors skills, martial arts, foreign language studies, and many others) as well as my computer related skills.
3> Work in more "humanizing" fields, such as recreational therapies, music therapy, maybe camps for teenages, etc.
4> Help people, work with groups of children from 12 to 17 years in age that may (or may not) be struggling with issues such as ADHD/ADD and other learning disorders, or just need some confidence building that many camps and workshops can help with, and my skills will hjelp with. Some of this may be as a volunteer, and some as paid work
5> Do not accept any more work (volunteer or paid) than adds up to more than 30-40 hours per week. No more of this ridiculous 80-120 to 168 hours per week for work and study.
6> Do not spend more than 50 hours per week total in any combination of work and study max, and try to keep it from exceeding 40 hours per week.
7> Spend a minimum of 10 hours per week (more whenever possible) with my boys in activities they will enjoy and learn from.
8> Have a "date night" at least one day every week (2-4+ hours) with my wife
9> Spend some "me" time every day, at least 1 hour in something calming or creative, but don't get obsessive, and try not to spend more than 10 hours per week in that area.
It is key to find, and keep a balance between providing for the family, spending time with the boys and my spouse, continuing my never ending education, and spending some "self" time.
10> Not live/move into major metropolitan areas, especially ones with the insane "manic" approach to life such as in the Silicon Valley and Bay Areas, Seattle, and New York, etc.
No longer will I bury myself in nothing but work.
So, now I'm spending time studying, and researching what are the best paths in detail that will enable all this to happen.
I know I'm going to take a HUGE hit  in income for a while, probably 2-3 years unfortunately, but this is more important than any financial wealth my family and I were once becoming accustomed to.
I'll post more as things become more defined.
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Until next posting,
Hawke