Currently there are hundreds of thousands of tech workers (some with 10+ years of experience) who are being laid off. It's possibly the worst time in the last 1

Currently there are hundreds of thousands of tech workers (some with 10+ years of experience) who are being laid off. It's possibly the worst time in the last 10 years to make this transition. You have a lot of other things working against you when competing for jobs, too. You might be able to beat your current salary in the US, where programmers are paid much better and there are more tech companies, but I doubt you'd do better in Europe. Also looking at that list, the highest-paying jobs aren't high-paying because of the technology. It's because of what you're doing with that technology. All of the top things are adjacent to infrastructure engineering, managing massive amounts of data, etc. I'd guess that a lot of those salaries are coming from places like Netflix or Google. You can learn Go (and should, it's very easy), but understanding how to configure, automate, and maintain things like MapReduce, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes in a real production environment is not going to happen soon. Some of that stuff is so frustrating and complicated that most programmers don't want to touch it. You have to know a ton about a lot of different domains.