/sci/ - Science & Math

Ok there's gonna be a bit of a story, please bear with me.

Early enough I realized I wanna do theoretical physics.
Somewhat later I realized I also want to have "money money". I'm talking hundreds of millions minimum. Problem is: you can't really make real money doing theoretical physics. Year, you can write a popular science book, but I don't wanna do that. You can go in industry. Would hate to do that as well. I'm purely interested in finding out new stuff, anything barely applied - not for me. Needless to say, one million dollars you get by winning a Nobel prize - is fuck all compared to the effort and luck it takes to get it. I mean what the fuck is a million dollars?

I thought "hey the job offer and the money offer in those jobs is so small, that you need to be a sucker to do it. I respect myself too much to settle for contribute so much value for so little".

So I found another thing I seem to show promise in that shows promise of make money in it. I'm interested in it enough. Decided to do it seriously and make money this way, while still being in uni studying physics. Perhaps it's enough for me to just know enough physics and I don't really have to actually do it.

But lately I've read some textbooks after having a long study break cause of the other thing and it was so great that I'm now having doubts. I've never really researched any money making prospects of my original life path.
Have I possibly missed something?
The new thing I started doing still requires me to start a business related to it at some point anyway, so really it just comes down to being able to make a good couple of millions and then to use that to start a scalable business related enough to what I'm doing.


Anybody went through something like this?