Here in the oil patch If you have a degree in petroleum engineering, petroleum geology or petroleum land management and augment it with an internship you are pretty much guaranteed a job after graduation paying up to $100k.
Here outside the oil patch if you are a high school dropout but can program in Java, C++, C# or any other popular computer language, which most 16 year olds can do, you can make over $100k.
A great many people find programming as complicated as learning to speak Sanskrit or boring as hell. You have to have a certain kind of mindset to program for years without your head exploding.