>but I don't think I could work in e.g. finance because I like technology and developing new stuff. Right, most people don't want to work in finance. They do

>but I don't think I could work in e.g. finance because I like technology and developing new stuff. Right, most people don't want to work in finance. They do so because of the money. And generally financial CEOs/CFOs are smart enough to only pay workers what they have to. So the incentives are probably priced appropriately. "Innovation" always takes a ton of muck work that has very little glory. I work at a chip company. For every engineer doing cutting edge work, you have 10 people doing very unsexy support tasks that are 100% necessary. These are roles people do because they pay well, not because they are interesting.