I bet a gap year was not out of the question. Or at least a gap 3-6 months between switching jobs is easily doable. Perhaps they are not necessary for happine

I bet a gap year was not out of the question. Or at least a gap 3-6 months between switching jobs is easily doable. Perhaps they are not necessary for happiness but I bet if you had took that 3-12 months to do whatever it is you wanted to do it'd be the time you look back at most fondly. Compound interest is great but salary tends to compound as well. At least in the tech sector. I've gone from 60k to 200k in about 8 years. So even though I'm missing that nest egg saving today is way easier than it was in my 20s.