Actually this is pretty common amongst a lot of my friends just graduating from school. If you have AI/ML skills, you can often choose between finance, which will make you a millionaire before you're 25, or a hip place that pays you a mediocre salary, or if you're lucky, a hip place that pays you a mediocre salary with good stock options.

I turned down the more guaranteed capital gains at a trading company for a riskier bet in stock options at a company I really like, although only after heavily negotiating. I do not regret it.

* Mediocre is defined here as roughly 85K. That is a shit ton more than anyone else I know who I graduated high school with makes in rural New York. It's all a relative.