[mykalberta]

In the IT world there are 3 golden gooses so to speak of.

Network Security
Network Engineering
Exchange Administrator
4: - not really obtainable but legacy systems, you can make a killing but they are really for older IT persons

If you have training\experience in any of the above 3, you will never have trouble finding a job (might not be in Calgary, but). Calgary is the best place to work in IT west of TO IMO becuase of the head offices. The Network type jobs are only at head offices, or major branch offices (over 1000) other than that, that job can be done remotely.

Example, I work for a company with almost 10000 employees world wide, we have 2 Network Engineers total. If I were you, I would take some courses at SAIT vis a vi Exchange migration techniques etc as that will be very usefull on a future resume. Also, in the mean time I would try to milk as many training seminar/courses out of the company that you can before you jump ship. Have them send you to the states for training courses to make up for your pay descepancy.