Besides the hi-tech industry, many other white-collar professions long thought glorious had begun to lose their luster well before the current economic downturn, because of changes in the environment for the given industry or because of extreme competition in the marketplace.
除了科技業，許多過去曾經光彩的白領行業，早在這一次景氣波動之前，已經因為產業環境變遷與市場高度競爭而面臨危機。