"Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow" by Marsha Sinetar is a book that helped me. I worked for years writing code, excited to get up in the morning to get s

"Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow" by Marsha Sinetar is a book that helped me. I worked for years writing code, excited to get up in the morning to get started, My performance was excellent. I worked for other years dreading looking at a code base that sucked for managers that sucked, My performance was subpar. Only you know what brings you joy. I think it's a mistake to look at what others are doing to decide what you should do. I'm surprised to read that you feel computer science as a whole is a hot field. Most of it seems fairly prosaic these days, but certain parts are really hot, like machine learning