I have never heard anyone ever say the compiler was at fault. Or maybe because my programmers were professionals and when I program I can recognise mistakes.

If I was at home and had the time to waste, I would do this in the warcraft 3 world editor.

I know these exist, I am not debating those points.

For every 100 car park prostitutes there will be one high end one that earns more than majority of the population. All do the same thing in different styles.

I couldnt find stats for america, but they sort of exist for Australia, which is not that much different. I had to pick sydney NSW as it wont let me choose australia as a whole, but NSW generally has a higher population. The highest reported was 125k AUD and the median being 90k. You can play with it here:

https://www.payscale.com

I cant directly post any results.

Do they earn that much? Do you happen to work for any of those large companies that actually need them and you hang out with them, thus you know by proxy in location? You could stand in the middle of a city and one will never walk past, but if you go to their place of work there will be more than one. For each 150K programmer there are many more than do not even get that far. And even more after that, that do not even get half.

How many 150k programmers of any kind do you know of? Compared to the number of programmers in their late 20s even? 150k is reserved for people in charge of programmers.

Computer repair is a good skill to have, but you will not find it a profitable one. Computers these days are cheaper to just replace than repair. You missed that age by about 10-15 years. I almost went into it and am glad I did not.

Electrical engineering opens you up to many many other paths. Requires a lot of actual school and certification though. Money and time. But if you can do it, would be good.

Marketing on its own is not profitable. Industry specific with product knowledge is good, but unless you get into advertising or data sales youre going to struggle to fight all the other marketers and in general they are very good at telling lies.

Really though, youre 16. If you have the inclination to learn, do it now. Do as much of it as you can. Become a machine of information and skills. Even without formal qualifications you will find that you will be picked more often just by displaying knowledge of a topic.

Programming is good work, until you decide to get a family or .. In my experience (partially first hand, 2nd hand and 3rd hand), after 30, when it turns you into a shell of a man.

If you're going to aim for that income in the programming world, expand your knowledge into business and dev management. Extremely high chance that the guy telling the 80k programmer what to build makes more money than he does.

From 80k to mcdonalds? Id rather you strived for the difficult 80k. At least along the way you will learn newer and more relevant skills. Even if you pick up a cheap and nasty coding job along the way, you will at least learn what NOT to do. Often I find it more valuable to hire people who express their grievance with a previous employer for good reasons.

How long do you expect him to hold it and be happy and healthy at that income level?

I am 16

In that case, congratulations. You've done what most other 16 year olds cant do. Improve themselves. I also started around 15/16 learning programming for myself. While I only ever used it as an auxiliary skill to whatever I was doing for income, but as you said, it helps you become smarter over all.

I can easily earn around 80k USD

Good luck. With that. cough

What is your back up plan for income?