Yea, it took my uncle like 20 years or so to get to around $200k as an electrician.
In subreddit r/cscareerquestions
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I should have chosen to become electrician instead of SWE. If i put the same effort I put into learning and working as electrician I would earn probably about 200k already but in swe for the effort I put in i am unemployed thats the reality of the market.