A PayPal founder was a friend of mine. He was an ex game developer. He said emphatically to me: “Get out of games - you’ll never make much there”. Looking back, he was right.
Also, you can work on plenty of interesting, challenging, and useful problems without working on video games. When I'm old and on my death bed I'm not going to be proud of my trilist index optimizer or my deferred renderer. Most problems in game dev are quite boring.