[shams93]

Most programmers are not that well compensated. I never made more than 120k a year tops, I'm almost 50 years old. Not everyone is young and pretty and attractive to the Googles. The number of employers who compensate like this are tiny you can count them on one or two hands. 98% of programmers never make more than 100k. With nearly 30 years experience I build things that would bill out to $160,000 a month for an outside team to produce, but I live in an 80 square foot roach infested apartment and can't afford a car.

[dpau]

If your work is that valuable then perhaps you’re selling yourself short? In my 40s now and have definitely encountered age discrimination but found remote work once I updated my skills. I hope you get out of that dump!

[softawre]

Do you live in a really high LOC area? Or are you exaggerating?