The first step is some kind of enforced discipline, removal of unlimited Internet and Social Media from their lives. I watch lots of electronics videos, and what the guys all have in common -- they spent hours tinkering with electronics when they were kids: back in the 70's and 80's (read: no Internet). The same with computer programming, or many other careers.

The Internet is a powerful distraction with infinite depth, because human beings are on it. You can't get sick of it or explore all of it. It's a temptation that's always there, and we didn't have to deal with it back in the 80's. We were allowed to be "bored" so that building a circuit, exploring it, and step-by-step improving it was FUN by comparison. Sure there is satisfaction writing your own programs once you get focused. But you can't compete with video games, passive entertainment, and instant dopamine hits from Social Media.

Cable TV had no choices and no temptation compared to today's options such as Youtube. Think of all the content for EVERYONE on that platform. That's assuming you can avoid the siren song of hanging out with people on social platforms.

I thought there was no future for white people in STEM as they give all the jobs to Indian immigrants.

I thought there was no future for white people in STEM as they give all the jobs to Indian immigrants.

There's a great deal of truth to that.  I worked as a contractor for a number of  years at NASA, and I very much wanted to get in as an official NASA employee ("civil servants" they call them, laughably).  I was pretty much told to my face that I had ZERO chance given that I was a white male.  There were openings for which I applied nonetheless, which ended up being given away to women or minorities, positions that I was far better qualified for and in areas where I had a long track-record of success and experience, but they gave the positions to women and minorities fresh out of college ... a few of whom ended up demonstrating their incompetence within weeks of being hired.

So with regard to STEM work in the government, white males need not apply.  And what remains in the private sector is shrinking rapidly as most of our manufacturing has gone to China and the third world.  That's why there was huge boom in IT.  As systems became more automated, they required more support.  But more and more IT is being automated.  You have cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Google AWS that manage and scale all the IT support resources pretty much automatically, so companies just put their stuff in the cloud instead of hiring local IT resources.

As far as India goes, however, companies are still doing some offshorting, but every single project I've ever worked on that entailed some Indian offshoring was an unmitigated disaster.  Indian IT are seriously incompetent, and the wage gap is decreasing.  Nevertheless, we're getting closer to where you won't need software developers either, as AI will simply take in the requirements and build systems automaticall for people.  We see some trends toward that already.