SimpleLife wrote:Any interest in IT work? You can teach yourself online and get a high paying job entry level if you can demostrate some knowledge.
Question is if this still holds and how guaranteed this strategy is for the
random person attempting it.
For example, just a couple of years ago you could get a low six-fig job in a BFE shale oil patch if you could demonstrate the ability to drive an F-350 (and an ability to relocate to said oil patch). It was open to pretty much anyone with a driver's license. The cause and resulting effect was almost guaranteed. Ditto joining some private security company in a ME war zone. Also, HTML coding in the mid 1990s. Now, not so much anymore.
I suspect that "demonstrating some knowledge"=>high salary only holds briefly and in a few fields. Only available for very fast movers and very fast adapters.---Which is a skill in its on. Or maybe more of a decision/lifestyle/attitude than an actual skill.
While I have no doubt that a few will rise fast due to being either high achieving, lucky, or politically savvy, what's the current MEDIAN starting salary for someone with an associates or bachelor degree in "computer stuff" or alternatively a stint at some code academy or the skill to build an app with a GUI. Like, how does "some knowledge" help anyone compete against China or Indian outsourcing unless they also have "something else".