I feel its a very personal preference to create a road map of future and
manifest the things you really want in life.
Still just felt adding my 2 cents here..
I feel after gaining some experience in any field, getting into self-employment is eventually better. In India i see people growing in industries related to construction and real estate businesses.
Jobs take people to max 2-3-4-5L/month. Not more and then higher salary people are layed off 1st.
My father has a electrical business and he is also an electrical consultant. With his help all the way till date, im into Lighting business and im also a Lighting consultant.
We see architects, electrical supervisors, interior designers, professional business owners doing really well and having complete freedom of time. No boss, no convincing anyone. Just professional attitude with good hold on conversation skills and knowledge of field.
And incomes have been seen in tune of 20k-2L/project where minimum people are doing 3 projects in a month and go upto 50 projects a month. People in this industry are buying properties worth crores and then multiplying assets through selling n buying more properties. Few people even reached the level of having properties across the world, having supercars in India and still being humble and professional.
Example of such a person who has good hold on Design, materials, and tech is Aamir Sharma (insta:
https://www.instagram.com/aamirsharma/?hl=en ).
As he suggests, you can explore electrical Automation, blend it with Ai, become a unique professional in that field as well. Eventually building your own brand name n brand consumer base. Hope this adds value to your thoughts.