The older I get the less it is about money, because life is short, and money starts losing its power to buy happiness quickly once you pass a threshold which is

The older I get the less it is about money, because life is short, and money starts losing its power to buy happiness quickly once you pass a threshold which is very easy to reach as an experienced software developer. A job which pays a lot of money can also make you miserable, comprehensively so, to such a degree that there is nothing you can spend that extra money on which will make up for it. In my experience the jobs which have paid the most did so because they had to, because nobody would put up with them otherwise; so "best salary in the industry" has become a negative signal.