There are a lot of opening. But a lot of DBA group in bay area are all Indias. They like to hire another India. Also there are a lot of server consolidation/data center consolidation. DBA use to manage 10-50 databases. Now DBAs have to manager 100-200 databases (data center consolidation). Most important is DBA has to be on call. Project manager job is much easy, make same amount money, no on call, no fix up production database..... To me, get easy job, make most money is want I am looking for now.