I had a similar experience.
26-28: At a call center for $7.25 CAD per hour.
28-31: Part of a startup making $3,500/month.
31-34: Product dev at $70k.
35 now: Software dev making 98k.
Looks like Scala is widening its adoption lead over Clojure. I think the latter is going to become a niche language for large-scale data processing, while the former takes its place as the next enterprise language.