Am i chasing money ? Tired of it..
14 years back , i started my career with 5k monthly salary, two years back my pkg was 57.5 LPA fixed. Currently getting around 80 LPA. Sometimes i feel i made a good progress but sometimes i feel jealous when i see in some leet code discussions that people with 6-9 years exp getting around 70-90 lpa. I know its a rat race. But i am tired now of chasing money. How to overcome from this race ??
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Remember Tazos?
The ones we got free with Lays and Cheetos in 1998ish? Which had Cartoon network characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck etc? In my school, we used to collect and show it off during lunch breaks. We used to exchange with friends. My parents rarely bought me Lays, but I still managed to collect 8 in around 1 year. I had friends in my circle who collected 15-20 on avg. Highest in my class had around 50. They used rubber bands to store and carry it. One guy in our locality had more than a 100.
Then suddenly after a year, tazos went put of fashion and WWE cards became the norm. Then came Pokémon cards, then video games and currently in 2025, GenZs boast of body count.
The pay packages we are chasing today will eventually go in the same fate as those tazos. I ain't saying money won't be important in future. But as we grow, there will be other metrics that will rank at priority higher which we will flex about our circles. Maybe it will be our cholesterol levels or abs or VO2max or our children's grades.
I thought Tazos were eternal value and aimed to collect 200 in next 10y. We suffer from the same fallacy to think that our incomes will be the highlight of our life even after 10y. And if the priorities of our circle aren't changing with time, we perhaps need to change our circles!
You have come a long way, appreciate yourself. Comparison is the killer of happiness
Thought of the day Comparison is the killer of happiness!!
Every day, I check AmbitionBox for companies that pay higher salaries than I receive. And simply assume that almost Everyone is getting higher pay than I am getting.
Living Costs are increasing, and so is the standard of living. In my company, people only talk about the foreign trips they've made, the luxury hotels they've stayed at, or the new house or car they're planning to buy. I see many young people riding fancy cars or bikes; I see youngsters running unicorn companies.
Sometimes I feel I've missed the train already, but stilI have to run and catch it, no matter how long it takes. I guess this is what life is.
Run run run!
You have seen 6-9 yrs exp. gettim 70-90 LPA and what abt. those illiterate polititions who are playing in 100-200 crores. There is no end of this story. Think abt. your past and be happy what you have now.