The bigger challenge from a person perspective is that if you can do [technical/teaching] content well, you have so many higher leverage opportunities available.
Doing the thing prints equity.
Consulting prints money.
You need a lot of $200 sales to compete with a $300k+ salary
Doing the thing prints equity.
Consulting prints money.
You need a lot of $200 sales to compete with a $300k+ salary
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And I don't live in the US, so 300k+ comp is in fact a more realistic goal with a content business here (my speculation).
The trick is to pick something tenable you can do for decades, so leverage can compound.
But hear you on the cultural issue.
This was a hugely high leverage activity for me 10 years ago when I first came to USA. Now better bets await.
I would push back on "tenable for decades" and instead focus on regularly adapting your approach as situations change
I've heard content marketers say there are still huge opportunities in content (to my surprise, given the industry we're in). Maybe the long tail is still growing?
Reason I was skeptical is exactly because it's in their interest that the content well never goes dry, but it's plausible and I couldn't disprove it so far.
Maybe content is not declining on all fronts?
My argument is that content-as-marketing (to sell something else, even ads) is doing great and will continue to be an edge.
Content-as-product ... not so much.