Back when the IT field started (1970's) the promise was if you wanted a fast growing, high paying future go into IT. Forty years later most of the IT jobs are overseas. It???s a good career if you want to relocate to India. What jobs are left in the United States, with a few exceptions, are jobs that have been commoditized and therefore are compensated poorly. I have met a lot of technicians that make less than $30,000 a year. That???s a far cry from the living wages that were promised two decades ago.