My number is whatever it would take to buy a house in cash and live off my investments for a while. This depends entirely on my rate of burnout. I'm 3 years int

My number is whatever it would take to buy a house in cash and live off my investments for a while. This depends entirely on my rate of burnout. I'm 3 years into my career and I'm feeling good right now, but anything can happen. If I can stick it out for another 20 years, maybe that's enough for a decent home in Los Altos and enough investment income to have a bay area standard of living, so that's maybe $5M to $10M. If I burn out relatively quickly, then maybe I just move to some rural area and live cheaply, so that might be more like $1M to $2M. Of course, the only way I could possibly achieve these numbers is if tech doesn't crash horribly, which is seeming increasingly possible. So I'm trying to buckle down for a standard 50 year career.