Working on a startup pursuing your topic / field of interest might do the trick.
There are also lots of technical fields that vastly underpay due to the number of people that want to do it (eg. video games industry) and/or the lack of demand or immediate utility (eg. academia and research).
There's also art, film, stage, music, and all of the liberal arts.
Imagine what you want to do, then find a job that hits close to that. It might not pay well, but it might satisfy you.
> or the lack of demand or immediate utility (eg. academia and research).
The problem with academia for me (at least here in the US) is the amount of money I have to piss away to even get a fraction of a chance to work in it. You could convince me to sacrifice money to work on something interesting, but you can’t convince me to pay you a shitton of money to have a chance of maybe working on something interesting.
There are also lots of technical fields that vastly underpay due to the number of people that want to do it (eg. video games industry) and/or the lack of demand or immediate utility (eg. academia and research).
There's also art, film, stage, music, and all of the liberal arts.
Imagine what you want to do, then find a job that hits close to that. It might not pay well, but it might satisfy you.