I'm 27 and make a pittance compared to most of my friends who work in finance or have FAANG jobs. Does it sort of suck, yeah. But at the same time I can affor

I'm 27 and make a pittance compared to most of my friends who work in finance or have FAANG jobs. Does it sort of suck, yeah. But at the same time I can afford to live in New York and know at what point I'm going to call it. If in three years I don't have my own place in the city, I'm going to move somewhere in the midwest and just start enjoying who I am. Sometimes I feel like I look backwards in my life to find reasons why where I am now is great considering where I came from, but then I realize how scary it is to see people who become complacent and stop improving. That said, if I'm simply unable to achieve great financial success I'm not going to keep deluding myself through my thirties. At this stage in my life I'm glad to have successful friends who seem to respect what I have to say and encourage me to work hard and continue moving forward. Some others have said it, but life is too short to spend it around people who make you feel like shit and don't realize they're doing it. Nice people can be shitty people - life is too short to spend it around people like that.