Make sure your new career path matches your financial needs today, you have strong intuition for this.
So you have sorted out what you want your career to be and how you are going to shape the path to make it happen, now it's time to take a closer look at the financial side of this. Look at what you can expect and what your needs are, you need these two areas to at least match up. If they do not you have some serious thinking to do. Your intuition can guide you in this.