1000x increase in TC - How did I chase my TC?

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Feb 24, 2021 39 Comments

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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