This is good advice; thanks.

Perhaps this is true, but I would challenge you over your use of the word "career." A career is a weird, organic, practically unplannable thing. If you browse the resumes of relatively successful people on LinkedIn, you will very rarely find anything that looks like "Worked at Company X for 25 years, performing the same general class of duties with gradually increasing responsibility."

True. Perhaps, I should clarify that I'm looking for my "first step". What job/career I would do first, before inevitably moving on to something else.

For example, there's a tendency to fixate on starting salary and mean salary as the only metrics determining income. These are only two parameters of a salary distribution which needs several more parameters to fully characterize - the median, the standard deviation, and the skewness, and how these are all a function of time.

Not to mention there's also a tendency to exclude benefits and bonuses from the calculation as well.