be like me. fail hard at something totally unrelated and then work really hard so you can start at a FAANG in your mid 30s as the oldest junior IC in the building
FAANG is the ultimate faustian bargain - give up your dreams, your hopes, your youth - in exchange for like 10 mil. 10m is a lot of money. Most people never see that money. But you have to give up a decade of your life. That decade, the energy you had, won’t come back.