[whoknew1122]

> There can be _both_ a worker shortage and unreasonable salary expectations.

This is true, but unreasonable salary expectations exacerbates a worker shortage.

I can either try to find security work with reasonable expectations and salary, or I can take the skills I learned in security to learn IaaC, CI/CD, and Docker (which takes maybe a couple months?) and go do DevOps to make a lot more money. Sure I'm not passionate about DevOps, nor do I feel I'll be making more of a societal impact in DevOps. But I'll be materially better off and won't have to sift through hundreds of job postings to find a posting with reasonable expectations.

The end result? Another qualified, passionate person outside of the job pool.