I am a community physician in early 30’s. I attended an engineering school similar to Caltech or Harvey Mudd before attending medical school. It’s helpful to have trusted friends with high earning power so you can have frank discussions on investing for FI & social good. Anyways, of those I keep in touch with:
1. SF, software engineer at workplace productivity B2B company, $900k/year
2. SF, software engineer at FAANG, machine learning, $400k/year
3. SF, software engineer at FAANG, machine learning, $450k/year
4. Seattle, software engineer at FAANG, $450k/year
5. Seattle, software engineer at FAANG, $500k/year
6. Etc.
This doesn’t include acquaintances who are founders of tech companies that sold for $100m plus, or early employees of publicly traded companies. Their net worth is probably somewhere between $10m and $30m, and yes, they’re also in their early 30’s.
Tech jobs do not have a high barrier to entry and there are very good, free or affordable resources to develop your technical skills. I am reasonably confident that if cancer disappeared tomorrow, or if the healthcare system was nationalized (kidding but not kidding), I could get an entry level job in tech paying $200k+ with 6 months of prep.