If you are "good" and able to pick your field in the science/technical arena, would you pick something that's at risk to outsourcing and flooded with competitio

If you are "good" and able to pick your field in the science/technical arena, would you pick something that's at risk to outsourcing and flooded with competition? Or, would you pick something that's harder to outsource, pays better and offers a better work/life balance? I've build systems for years and years, and it would have been WAY better career-wise to be a user of the bloody things than a developer.