If you want to make money, IT is still one of the best fields out there for people without much of a connection.
It is also one of the fields that does have very complex systems. OS kernels, distributed database engines, AAA game engines, you name it.
It is just in USA and some other few nations. In most of the rest of the world a sw dev is paid just a bit more than a standard office job
And sometimes that's enough for a good and fulfilling life.