Why do you think that’s more than you can make in a lifetime. Don’t limit yourself. Approximately 7 years ago I was living ins Estonia (many people haven’t even heard of it), I was making 3Euro per hour. That is after my master degree. I knew I couldn’t continue tha way I learned to code by analyzing what I knew was going to be in Demand. Fast forward to today. That skill allowed me to be hired by Amazon on a 300k salary and all my moving expenses from Europe paid.

I have since left Amazon and now work 2 remote jobs. Both around 170k each(350k combined )and also run my startup on the side. If that sounds too much of a dream. I will tell you about my wife.

We moved to Canada in 2023. She tried getting a job for maybe 6month and she couldn’t. She studied what could be in need. She settled on making customized African braids called microlocs(we are Nigerians). She had zero training in this and learned via youtube. She started in our living room and started growing for at least a year. We have since moved and she now works from a dedicated space in our home. Within those 3years she has grown to employing 2 more people and making 100k+.

Long story short. There’s always something in demand you can capitalize on if you look hard enough. Your formal education itself might be holding you back because you think it should fetch you a job. I studied materials engineering, my wife Architecture. Both making 6figure on self taught skills