The faster this tech bubble bursts and people stop flocking to engineering the better.
if you are not someone who is already trained at this field, it's inefficient to start on your own. You'd be giving up your expertise and productivity in tech, in return for mediocre output in the research.
Much better option is to keep working in tech, earn as much money as is feasible, and then funnel the excess funds into companies that _do_ longetivity research.
THat's a good idea. But I think an even better strategy would be to start a cryptocurrency hedge fund and later start an associated exchange.
This will allow us to maximize the amount of money we earn, so we can have the greatest impact on companies that do longevity research.
> ???
> profit
> This will allow us to maximize the amount of money we earn
So if you could fill in the ??? on how to profit, then yes, this is a good way too. Note that it needs to be legal.
I'm not particularly concerned about partially starting over in a new field - I'm not that old so my skillset is not particularly tremendous. If anything, I feel coming from outside the traditional system and already having financial freedom is a positive. When I was in academia (not CS) I didn't feel the standard of the people there was particularly great and my trust in top-down organizations is generally quite low.