It depends on supply and demand for skills. If you have average skills that a hundred thousand other people have, then your skills are less valuable. If you hav

It depends on supply and demand for skills. If you have average skills that a hundred thousand other people have, then your skills are less valuable. If you have expert skills in a high demand area, then up. So building websites and most apps is flooded with people. Autonomous cars, some AI/ML security, VR / AR, vision, even COBOL, have fewer people, high demand. Just become very valuable to your potential employer. (Think about debugging autonomous cars, what would you make if you were great at that!) There are online courses, some free, for those topics. There are open source projects on many of those topics.