You can make good money pretty easily with a tech career, but the stupid rich money is still in doctors and lawyers and business executives or business owners,

You can make good money pretty easily with a tech career, but the stupid rich money is still in doctors and lawyers and business executives or business owners, as far as I can tell anecdotally comparing myself to some of my peers. I'm not driving around in one of multiple sports cars like my previous dentist was, for example. Also a cousin of my wife is just a few years out of law school working for a top firm and already building a $750k vacation home (in addition to their luxury condo they're living in downtown right now). You could make the same argument that for the longest time lawyers and real estate and MBA programs are starving other industries from talent as well. I grew up pretty smart, and I probably could have entered academia and made some decent research contributions, and might have if I hadn't heard so many horror stories. Instead I stayed out and designed a few games people liked (nothing to do with mobile ads there, in fact my most popular game was a free Flash game I made no money off of) and had a more tame software engineer career besides that. Sometimes I kind of wonder how life would be different if I had gone the more academic route, or stayed within the video game industry despite the toxic bullshit that's common in it as well. Kind of hoping I somehow get lucky with a couple of investments and I can afford to take a nice long break, at least a year, to focus on getting my games out there again instead of a few hours a week.