The high salary job are not always satisfy object explain?
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It is something that I have thought about often. I started up a startup, struggled for 7-8 years then had two low 8 figure payouts in a period of roughly 24 months as we were bought by a major financial institution. I did it because of passion for the subject (clean energy) but there were many times that it was beyond stressful - as the start of the company also coincided with the start of family and for many years, my wife's income was the majority of our earnings (and she had solid jobs, in the end cracked 100k but was by no means a GS banker)
While drive and talent can get you a very solid lifestyle - to get to the level of infamous "FU money" you also need luck. Nobody who gets there and is completely honest with themselves can look back at the trajectory and not see that somewhere along the line, that happened. Sometimes just going back to who your parents were and their bank balance. This is why progressive taxation is fair. I know plenty of people in my field who were also there at the beginning, also worked their asses off and were just as smart who never made it over the top. I did - but to attribute that somehow to the fact that I was in any way "better" seems churlish to me.
As to the entrepreneurial bent and drive - well, some people have it and others don't. I've come the the conclusion that some people simply don't do anything unless they are told to do something. Me, I've used the gains to get active in multiple nonprofts, invest on a plethora of businesses and start a new company. My wife - who is an excellent worker and fabulously talented - simply can't find self-driven passion, despite having the precise same financial security to do whatever she wants. I've known plenty of people who were great workers, but inwardly terrified of doing something on their own. I think it's just the way different people are wired.
While drive and talent can get you a very solid lifestyle - to get to the level of infamous "FU money" you also need luck. Nobody who gets there and is completely honest with themselves can look back at the trajectory and not see that somewhere along the line, that happened. Sometimes just going back to who your parents were and their bank balance. This is why progressive taxation is fair. I know plenty of people in my field who were also there at the beginning, also worked their asses off and were just as smart who never made it over the top. I did - but to attribute that somehow to the fact that I was in any way "better" seems churlish to me.
As to the entrepreneurial bent and drive - well, some people have it and others don't. I've come the the conclusion that some people simply don't do anything unless they are told to do something. Me, I've used the gains to get active in multiple nonprofts, invest on a plethora of businesses and start a new company. My wife - who is an excellent worker and fabulously talented - simply can't find self-driven passion, despite having the precise same financial security to do whatever she wants. I've known plenty of people who were great workers, but inwardly terrified of doing something on their own. I think it's just the way different people are wired.
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