| Glass can be half empty or half full: 1) You currently have top %5 salary, not tomorrow, but today - you probably doesn't have to worry that much for the next 5 years at least and probably will enjoy similar high salary 2) You have currently 20 years of experience - that's a lot. Compare to someone who is currently studying IT or just starting their education. 3) After 20 years of working in industry most likely you have some savings and warchest 4) You probably in better situation comparing to someone just starting carieer - most people work around 40 years in their field before retiring, you already half there. 5) Worst case maybe you won't enjoy top 5% salary but median Tech salary - which is still way above median salary in most countries. You managed to live with lower salary before so will do fine as well. 6) With your experience probably easier for you to find remote job if haven't done already. You seems like don't have mortage so probably easy to move to cheaper city or even country even if just for couple of years. 7) Many expats on retired visa in south east asia (thailand, malaysia, indonesia, vietnam) - life is so much cheaper there - that's assuming you are currently from more developed countries. 8) If you salaries will get lower you will have 3 choices: a) live with lower salary like you used to before but at least you job will be easier to because more automated by LLM so probably less stressful b) should be easier for you to learn and pick any new specializations with LLM as your copilot: rust, machine learning, vr/ar, robotics, c) embrace it and use it to develop some you own product/SaaS/app as a side hassle/hobby - it's probably now the best window of opportunity for indie devs. |