Part of me feels “stuck” in crypto career-wise because it’s the only industry where I’ve found any semblance of multi-year compounding and doing anything else would mean starting from scratch

And honestly that compounding is not really even any hard skill, moreso just network and intuition

Does the answer dramatically change once you remove money from the equation?

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How much of this consideration is money-driven?

Have you thought of exploring a field like Robotics, 3D printing, Quantum computing etc, which might not pay as well as crypto

Yes but when does it stop? You either make X amount, something that pays for your lifestyle or you keep compounding to higher-highs 

I'd suggest pondering a little on what that number could be and how fast you can reach it

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm getting at - i am looking into exploring  fields like those but it means starting from scratch and "giving up" the compounding i've had in crypto since there's very little overlap