Good career: director at FAANG, 25MM from startup exit Good personal life: loving and beautiful spouse, kind and smart children, many close friends, has reached self-actualization (Both is not an option. Assume the person with good career is a virgin, person with good personal life has 60k TC)
A good career is a requirement for a good personal life because a good personal life costs a lot of money. People who devalue money and claim it’s a distraction from a good personal life are merely deluding themselves.
I don't agree that a good personal life costs *a lot* of money. Being a millionaire is not a requirement to have a loving family.
This is delusional. I’ve met so many people who have great personal lives and they make almost nothing. You may live in a bubble where people act happy when they own things lol be careful
Simple answer, there are more people who had regretted working hard ignoring family in deathbed.
Not unless the work they did impacted the world around them. Granted, this is a microscopic amount of people who actually get to this point, but you will 100% not get there if you opt not to work hard.
Not necessarily we are seeing everything through the prism of capitalist society, when you go to socialist society you will come across so many people who don't make much and had very little impact in the world or even in the family circles, but are very very happy. I know a lot of such folks in India(in Tamil Nadu and Kerala).
Trading off for one or the other is not prestigious. “Prestige” only comes from having both.
Minimum tcomp to have a hot stay at home wife and 3 kids is 150k
They said beautiful wife, not stay at home wife. You can have a good relationship with your beautiful wife who works full time
This is Blind: *Subjective question on deep philosophical values reduced to binary decision with arbitrary starting conditions*
Prestige is stupid
Why tf is everyone so concerned about “prestige” here. Life pro tip, no one cares about you except for you and your parents. Do what makes you happy.
Value your family, give them full time like 2-3 hours of your day. Now whatever time left, if you are not a time waster you can have a great career.
Dude, Virgin and unmarried are not the same. You made option 1 worse except for folks who are Asexual. I go with option 2 assuming I’m in Germany or UK with a salary corresponding to 60K USD in a tier 2 or 3 city in US
And your TC is?
TC 60k and virgin
Nationally as well please