€120k salary does not make you a king. And prices compared to pre pandemic ones also skyrocketed. Germany was once nice average salary/low living cost country. Now only average salary left. But it’s ok when one is already inside. Not recommended for newcomers though.
100K is damn hard to break into if you're on the strictly technical path nowadays, but maybe it's just my line of work (embedded). I've been trying to learn some web stuff and go and C# to maybe expand my job options a bit.
100K is easy to break as a freelancer. You'll obviously have more things to consider - multiple clients, accounting, legal and potential downtime, but its totally doable.
I think embedded could actually be a good discipline to work as a freelancer, most IoT products usually have a more rigid and defined development cycle than web platforms.
