To Blind millionaires, was it really worth the time and effort? I only started at my first job last month and my bank account balance is less than $3K.
Chasing money alone may not be worth it. The goal post will keep moving. But chasing a life of freedom and options that money can buy can be worth it.
That’s what I always say. I don’t need a few million dollars to buy several cars and real estate. I don’t care about luxurious watches. But the freedom to pursue all my dreams w/o any pressure would be crazy awesome. 😎 If I get that kind of money, I would invest several hours working on my fitness (I am a triathlete and have finished 2 ironman triathlons), read books on philosophy, psychology, and AI. Would be an entrepreneur in the fintech space. Would hone my python coding skills. And would spend hours and hours working on my investment strategy. Just hard work with zero pressure. I would never be siloed. Man! Got goosebumps just thinking about all this. 🙂
@Leo23 Yea this exactly. I was so burned out I moved back in with my dad in 2018 to figure my shit out and due to lack of any drive etc fell into depression. After all the soul searching, smoking my fill of weed and video games, I've finally figured out what I wanna spend all my waking efforts on; in AI/NLP and clojure and biotech. But, such a thing is bigger than just me, i'm out of money and time again to even work on it... oh such is life I guess. At least I've found purpose in life so I've got that going for me, which is nice. In the meantime I just need to find work and get settled, get a place which is the real challenge. I'm up to averaging 24k steps a day, practicing meditation again and I've cut out weed and games. I feel really good and motivated now. Part of me also wants to go back to Uni or be around campus just to get more functional programming experience and pick the brains of math majors. Which would also be a really great way to talk theoretically and philosophically about many different things. Best of luck to you in your journeys, maybe we'll cross paths someday!
I’m at $1.5M, over $1m of it in highly liquid assets or cash equivalents. Not worth it, believe me.
Why is that?
I’ve gotten progressively more depressed over the years chasing TC. My first job out of college I was making $90k, living in San Diego, didn’t have much but it was the best time of my life. Working out, lazy days hanging out at the beach, watching the sunset and listening to music with no rush while having a burger on the sand, jet skiing, beautiful women, having a great time with friends, romantic bonfires, nonstop warm sunny days, those were golden times. Since then I got more addicted to the career growth due to outside influences and comparisons with my peers from childhood and university days. My TC increased 5x but the stress and obsession eventually makes your world colorless and sad and anxiety ridden. It’s true I can and do buy a better car, better housing, better luxury products, nicer food, and take more exotic vacations now. But honestly I wish I never got on this $$ addiction lifestyle train, now like drug, it’s hard to get off. I call it an addiction because that’s what it really is, it’s harder to stop obsessing or pushing the gas pedal than you think. You know you should slow down, you know it’s bad for you, but like a drug, it’s somehow impossible to let go.
As the old saying goes, money doesn't buy happiness, but a peyote fueled walkabout to find inner peace and the meaning of life is a lot easier to do when you never have to work again
This has kinda been my wish. That I can retire and be financially independent so I can take plant medicines and not have additional stress of work and job security come up. I'm sure other things might come up, but I feel like if I don't have to goto work I can manage those.
Peyote’s cheap. You dont need to be a millionaire to get it.
Yes absolutely it is, buys freedom and peace of mind but 1m doesn't buy that anymore. Make 10+ your goal.
Can you do an AMA?
We hustled hard before we had our son and kept it up for a few years after. Now we work sensible hours, spend what we want (though we’re admittedly not fancy people by nature), and are just putting in a couple more years until one of us stops working. Totally worth it but we made time/allowances for things we valued along the way. NW is about $3M.
Are you counting retirement funds in your $3M NW?
Why wouldn't he?
So worth it
Money doesn’t buy happiness but everyone wants to find out for themselves.
At the end of the road when you find out you're not happy you still have a lot of money 🤷♂️
You don't have to chase money.. just put your 100% in what you do and with a little luck you will get money,, people find sanity in different things. I joined paypal in 2015 and with stock appreciation now have 1.4M in vested stock
How much of that is gonna disappear when you liquidate it and owe tax?
20% to 40% But lol you sound like my wife... would you rather not have that money so you don't pay tax?.
I’m far from millionaire but with 50k I’m not seeing the allure of money
Money = Freedom Work for a few more years and you'll start to understand what it means to be a "wage slave".
How long have you been at Google