IT people with mechanical sympathy aren’t exactly an endangered species but we are rare enough that it becomes a bonding exercise (leatherman knives or pocket flashlights are our shibboleths).
If you’re a kid and you also have IT skills you’re going to be interested in IT unless there are extenuating circumstances, like wanting to stay rural, or a family business, or friends and family with union influence. Easier on your body and pays at least as well. So a car mechanic with heavy IT or electrical skills is going to be in short supply. Which is a problem when all cars are electrified.
If you’re a kid and you also have IT skills you’re going to be interested in IT unless there are extenuating circumstances, like wanting to stay rural, or a family business, or friends and family with union influence. Easier on your body and pays at least as well. So a car mechanic with heavy IT or electrical skills is going to be in short supply. Which is a problem when all cars are electrified.