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Why does everyone hate their job.... I love my job! Does anyone else love their job?

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u/ufakefekomoaikae wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I love getting paid

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I think if you join some rocketship companies now you'll make much more in the next 5 years than making $250K at Jane Street or similar cash heavy comp company annually now for five years. All of the richest people I know were so passionate about what they do, they became uniquely talented at something in that space that made them worth 8, 9, 10 figures. Even if you make a steady super high paycheck, relatively speaking these people will make more than your by an order of magnitude and you can never catch up. So IF MONEY IS YOUR MOTIVATION (which it is NOT for everyone) you will only be relatively rich by joining a rocketship you are passionate about... and you will be perpetually sad chasing that by accepting cash heavy crazy high offers.