[austincheney]

Options:

* Go into academia and publish often. This will not pay well but you can do ok and you can enter the corporate world at a later time for a high salary but it will feel like working with children.

* Become a military officer. This is a highly focused lifestyle befitting an operationally minded person who lives in the moment with constant stress balanced against a cool resolve. If you want to enter senior management you will become a short term academic at CGSC and the war college in addition to your prior fast paced life. To summarize the military life is to condense real world career struggles into a quarter of the time, plus life and death consequences, but without the fear of becoming spontaneously unemployed. You won’t get wealthy in the military either, but you can become extremely well compensated (wealthy compared to average persons but dirt poor compared to the equivalent responsibilities in the corporate world).

* Become a JavaScript developer. As a JavaScript developer the incompetence is an industry norm so you can easily achieve a highly salary with minimal time investment. Salaries are inflated and expectations are low. JavaScript developers will often complain about stresses that do not seem to exist, as compared to the academic or military life, plainly indicating that stress is relative. This is the easy life unless the industry matures, at which point many developers will quickly find themselves disqualified from practice without a fallback option.

[abrocks]

- Academia: I have often pondered over that thought and I find it a space for myself in the long term. But not going into academia but working as consultant with Academia while working my day job(a low paying which would give me freedom of time to pursue these threads). Not only academia is relatively slow paced so lesser work pressure but rewarding in terms of growth.

- Military: Many people in my neighbourhood have taken the same route and are enjoying their life. However, their savings were not enough to let them enjoy life in a city. They can only live their life in a small town.

- JavaScript developer: This is a very tempting thread which I am willing to pursue on. My founder with 40 years of experience said similar things. People will complain about java script but Javascript is not going to die. New flavours may keep coming in but it will not go away.