Smart contract Audits and creation is pretty lucrative, with payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'. I've been learning rust/ substrate tho, ETH is a bit dated by now.
And instead in a currency that's in a period of 'Transitory Panic Selloff'.
"Dad, how come we are poor" "Well you see son, when i was younger I traded all my real money for fake online tokens because i thought it'd make me a millionaire"
In all fairness, if you didn't take some profit over the last 6 months the fault lies within.