If this drives you to earn more, go earn more. Get a job at Google, get the 300k. If that's not what you want then don't. You are earning a huge amount and are

If this drives you to earn more, go earn more. Get a job at Google, get the 300k. If that's not what you want then don't. You are earning a huge amount and are working at a well respected company. You are doing awesome. Seriously you're kicking ass. Don't take this the wrong way but maybe it's time to grow up a little bit. You should not feel this bad because someone else is doing better than you. This is the definition of envy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy. Envy will rob you of so much happiness. Believe it or not you can learn to feel happy when other do better than you do. It will be a huge source of joy to you if you can learn this. It won't rob you of your drive. It will allow you to celebrate and be inspired by the success of others while being happy in who and where you are. As a culture we used to denounce envy but now we embrace it, it's a truly destructive force.