1000x increase in TC - How did I chase my TC?
Got my first job after college in a third world country with ~$2K/year 15 years ago (enough to live there). Never happy and didn’t want to bury my life there.
Left the job soon and applied for a grad school. TC bumped ~10x with TA/RA job, but that’s the bottom in the US. Never happy of course.
Got my first job in the Bay, TC bumped another ~10x, but still nothing in the HCOL area like the Bay.
10 years of hard working, I’m now at L6 at Airbnb and my TC bumped another ~10x. Complete happy now.
Is it worth to chase the Tc?
- Absolutely. If not, dont even know where I’m now.
Is it miserable to chase the TC?
- No, I really enjoy what I’m doing and was doing.
Are you gonna continue chasing the TC?
- Probably not, but I will still do what I’m doing and happy to receive what I will get. The important difference now is that money is no longer a pressure. Hope that I will be FIRE after my Airbnb tenure.
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> Leave India
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OP I hope you do make a million x TC in a few years though. There’s some people who are truly happy by more money. If that’s what you want hope you get it.
Wish you and all blinders can get FIRE soon :).