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Honestly I don't think I'd switch. My current job is comfortable and interesting, despite the "low" salary. It also allows me the freedom to explore my own idea

Honestly I don't think I'd switch. My current job is comfortable and interesting, despite the "low" salary. It also allows me the freedom to explore my own ideas and projects while maintaining really nice work/life balance. Numbers on paper don't tell the whole story.

rolltiide 7y ago
if accredited investor status accounted for Cost of Living I would agree with you but the reality is that hard numbers, especially when they are 300% more, really do matter
- bovermyer 7y ago
  Sure, but after a certain point, more money doesn't make much of a difference. I travel enough. I go to plenty of good restaurants with my wife and friends. I can buy some fun toys. My retirement fund is in progress. I have no debt. Would I turn down another hundred grand a year? No. Would I do much with it? No, it'd just go to investments, which I may or may not live long enough to use.
  - rolltiide 7y ago
    nah, I want to be able to make the same amount annually from interest alone, I want to be able to afford appeals court for any civil or criminal issue, I want a total exemption from the socio-economic woes of the proletariat such as the privilege of switching fielty to nations when convenient or preferred, a total exemption from ever needing to split assets built in a marriage because they would have never been built in a marriage or at least no real impact to an actual nest egg since they existed beforehand
    - bovermyer 7y ago
      That's... oddly specific. You do you, though.
      - rolltiide 7y ago
        Its the privilege that separates the classes. As you pointed out the consumptive aspects completely disappear, but its an incredibly limited view of money. I forgot to mention the tax and liability advantages of a fully funded trust and autonomous private foundation.
        bovermyer 7y ago
        I admit I never considered these aspects of financial gain. What books or other reading would you recommend on the subject?

rolltiide 7y ago

if accredited investor status accounted for Cost of Living I would agree with you but the reality is that hard numbers, especially when they are 300% more, really do matter

bovermyer 7y ago
Sure, but after a certain point, more money doesn't make much of a difference. I travel enough. I go to plenty of good restaurants with my wife and friends. I can buy some fun toys. My retirement fund is in progress. I have no debt. Would I turn down another hundred grand a year? No. Would I do much with it? No, it'd just go to investments, which I may or may not live long enough to use.
- rolltiide 7y ago
  nah, I want to be able to make the same amount annually from interest alone, I want to be able to afford appeals court for any civil or criminal issue, I want a total exemption from the socio-economic woes of the proletariat such as the privilege of switching fielty to nations when convenient or preferred, a total exemption from ever needing to split assets built in a marriage because they would have never been built in a marriage or at least no real impact to an actual nest egg since they existed beforehand
  - bovermyer 7y ago
    That's... oddly specific. You do you, though.
    - rolltiide 7y ago
      Its the privilege that separates the classes. As you pointed out the consumptive aspects completely disappear, but its an incredibly limited view of money. I forgot to mention the tax and liability advantages of a fully funded trust and autonomous private foundation.
      - bovermyer 7y ago
        I admit I never considered these aspects of financial gain. What books or other reading would you recommend on the subject?