Every parent I talk to I tell them to get their kids interested in tech. There's a shortage, even today, of quite simply, _resources_.... much less quality resources across all things IT.

There's young adults out there that can

-understand how to run benchmarks and manipulate config files for games so the game runs smoother. Isn't that performance tuning?

-play online games and tell developers of the games they bought where the bugs are and/or how different things should work in the game. Isn't that business analysis and QA?

Meanwhile most of these young adults have had it pounded in their head that tech jobs are for nerds, geeks, and losers. They work dead end, oversaturated jobs/careers in sales, marketing, and the service industry and major in things like English and History which will get them nowhere; or they major in law or med and flunk out with thousands of dollars in loans unpaid when they had no business being in those majors and were only in them because they thought they could make a lot of money.

As all this happens, underqualified offshore resources are hired to work remotely since they are hired at a bargain price compared to solid, legit resources. They're still making more money than the young adults mentioned above in their dead end jobs.

It's frustrating but I tell every parent I see to get their kids into tech. It pays well and is challenging but rewarding work.