Binary answer only. Take into account everything you value in your life. TC, family, friends, etc.
25m TC 200k 3 YoE (HW) Married to my best friend Moved to New city/state (CO) last year and love it Just signed on a new home construction 1 🐶 for now, neither wife nor I want kids Shooting for FIRE in 10 - 13 years (current NW ~250k) Easy to forget how amazing my wife and I have it and get stressed out or upset by stupid day to day shit. We're both healthy, wealthy, and very on track in all respects. #1 lesson I (and consequentially, all of blind I think) struggle with is to not compare our successes/failures with others - comparison really is the the theif of joy.
You have it all, good sir.
MVP
Try not to be sad. You should add complacent to the selection.
Yup, happy with networth. Can be retired , safely, in 10 years. Work and try to be happy with less (with the mindset that growing accustomed to high luxury effectively forces you to forever work for TC).
I would also be unhappy if I worked for an unethical company like Facebook
Few advices to be happy: - Live NOW, do not think too much of the past and do not think too much of the future. - Have a good hygiene of life, shower everyday, no alcohol during weekdays, eat well, sport 3 times per week, long walk in the nature. - Avoid toxic and bad people, remove them from your surroundings even if it’s making you to be alone. - Be positive, be nice, smile for no reason, be kind with people, positive energy is usually a mirror of what you do for others. Think about Karma. - The secret of happiness is helping others. Use your time to volunteer, help someone for no reason. - Be grateful everyday for something. - Acceptance: It is ok to NOT be ok. Accept what is happening in your life. Accept that your life is like a software with some bugs. Some of them you can fix now, others will take more time, few will never be fixed and it’s ok.
This. It's not easy to do all the above. Start meditating and all these (except good hygiene and avoiding toxic ppl) will automatically start to happen.
Rough time when the kids were young, but each year keeps getting better. Probably next tough challenge on the horizon is parental end of life management.
Around 70%, this is >50%, this means the answer is yes.
If I didn't have 60k debt and be a family of 4 living in grandmoms house with only 90k TC... I love my wife and kids... If only I had made better financial decisions. I'm still young though so I'll just tell myself that it's normal to be in debt before the real money comes in.
I made a family and am loving every minute with them. Work is up and down, finances aren't the greatest, but my happiness comes from family - particularly my partner. I'm actively working on the work and finance part 😥
I have been there too. Be sure to work on your happiness too. YOU first. To have a happy life, you need to be happy alone. Your 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓 is good, but be sure to keep a healthy alone life. It’s how you will have the best family/partner life.
those that are happy, how did you get there? :'(
Change what you don't like and accept what you can't change.
That’s a deep answer and very true