You could switch to academia if your Ph.D. period generated some good publications. This means a downround in terms of salary, but trading that cash against fre

You could switch to academia if your Ph.D. period generated some good publications. This means a downround in terms of salary, but trading that cash against freedom to pursue your own ideas. If you are already teaching voluntarily on the side, that is a signal that it could be the career for you. If you are open to working with grammars & parsing algorithms also in non- deterministic ways, you could consider a research career in NLP. Finally, you could apply to work for a specialist compiler company (JetBrains, Green Hills Software etc.).