>>Anyone with a decent college degree and a pulse can do this job [technical sales] and make above-average money.
No. Everyone has a fixed underlying personality that can't be changed. For example, born introverts cannot change themselves into extroverts because the underlying basis for introversion is high sensitivity in the nervous system, which is genetically determined. Maybe you fiddle around with drugs to change the sensitivity, same as you can boost/reduce testosterone. But you're playing with fire when you do that. And introversion/extroverts is just one aspect of personality.
What is very clear from my own experience is that not everyone makes a good salesman. Some people just hate it and when you hate something, you tend to suck at it. But maybe those same people are great at certain types of solitary and very highly paid STEM work. Computer programming, in particular, will continue to offer huge incomes (salaries, stock options, buyouts of you start your own company) for decades to come. But you need to be top tier, of course. Second rate programmers get menial incomes. Computer software a winner take all business, same as other foms of software: music, books, video.
No. Everyone has a fixed underlying personality that can't be changed. For example, born introverts cannot change themselves into extroverts because the underlying basis for introversion is high sensitivity in the nervous system, which is genetically determined. Maybe you fiddle around with drugs to change the sensitivity, same as you can boost/reduce testosterone. But you're playing with fire when you do that. And introversion/extroverts is just one aspect of personality.
What is very clear from my own experience is that not everyone makes a good salesman. Some people just hate it and when you hate something, you tend to suck at it. But maybe those same people are great at certain types of solitary and very highly paid STEM work. Computer programming, in particular, will continue to offer huge incomes (salaries, stock options, buyouts of you start your own company) for decades to come. But you need to be top tier, of course. Second rate programmers get menial incomes. Computer software a winner take all business, same as other foms of software: music, books, video.