I guess you did not read my comment carefully,
“Not everyone can be a doctor, engineer, carpenter, plumber,
et al.”
I was postulating that many lower skill jobs
could be eliminated with ease and that is where the highest
number of jobs are at.
Indeed you are correct that there are shortages of skilled workers. Especially in areas that are not desirable to live in. Undesirable in costs, political environment, climate, crowding et al. In other words quality of life.
Who in their right mind wants to live in Atlanta if you could get a job at Barking sands missile test range on Kauai? Or Cape Canaveral space Center? Or Tampa?
There isn’t a shortage of workers in places with a high quality of life.
Low income workers go where the jobs are, not for “quality of life”. The fact is that the us has a shortage of workers, a shortage of unskilled construction laborers.
Midle income workers (like from IL to GA?) also look for work, not “quality of life”.
Of course there are other factors:
1) Government regualation forces employers into inefficient positions thus there is a shortage for workers where they could be productive.
2) Nationwide HR is not logical. Logical, productive people take jobs that are productive. College grads who majored in Gender Studies and soft courses now are concentrated in HR (and PR).
3) Other factors. Shortage of workers exists in a comples society.