Honestly I was not sure about tech when I made a choice to get an electrical engg degree, a few years down the road I thought of an MBA, but then went and co-fo

Honestly I was not sure about tech when I made a choice to get an electrical engg degree, a few years down the road I thought of an MBA, but then went and co-founded a startup while holding a full time job. I could afford it, was still in my early 30s and didn't have kids. Although the startup did not succeed, that experience taught me a lot( I called it my alternative to going to business school). But overall, when I look back, tech was a great choice, I always have had enough time for family and hobbies (my average work week has always been 40 hrs). Maybe because I was fortunate to pivot into Data when it was not a "sexy" field that it has come to be. Some paths are just "luck". But tech beats a lot of fields ( medicine, law) for the compensation against hours worked and flexibility.