Professionally kind of – as some other posters mentioned, it's harder to reach higher pay grades. Some of my peers work very little and earn pretty well with th

Professionally kind of – as some other posters mentioned, it's harder to reach higher pay grades. Some of my peers work very little and earn pretty well with their specializations (though some others ended up with so much responsibility that they work a lot and can't spend much time with other topics). Personally it's great, I can quickly build models to improve complex decisions, e.g., by defining things as an optimization problem, building small simulations etc. And I can dive into many topics because I've worked on the basic components of many things. Also I can quickly prototype whole solutions end-to-end. This helps understand what's missing and how to build a roadmap. Right now I work as a product manager, though it would be great to find something where I could actually use my problem solving skills more and create more value by modelling complex systems.