The problem with tech jobs is they can easily be outsourced to countries where the cost of labor is lower, and where there are also billions of people among whom the top 1 percent are naturally very smart. Manufacturing jobs were outsourced by moving the factories “overseas” (ok Mexico is not overseas but you get the idea). Labor has been fighting with capital for gee 200 years. But I just paid an electrician $125 an hour for 18 hours work. That’s 250k at an annual rate. Because electricians need a license, they have to have an EAD (employment authorization document). If I were 20 I would consider engineering or some field where you have to be physically present and have some kind of professional license. Law and accounting are hard to outsource. Or just compete with tens of millions of smart poor people in India and China. Not much it the way of practical advice, sorry. I think we put too much value on clean hands.
Also you don’t have to worry about taking care of the health insurance when they are overseas.
It’s the main reason we have to decouple health insurance from employment.
Never had clean hands and always in demand.
Actually, low to mid level finance & accounting and legal jobs are some of the most outsourced. Lots of repetitive, rules-based processes and pretty much every document is electronic.