This is all very career-focused, but there's other important facets of your life. How are your relationships? With your family/friends? When you walk through

This is all very career-focused, but there's other important facets of your life. How are your relationships? With your family/friends? When you walk through a cemetery, you don't see "here lies John Smith, full-stack software engineer who earn $250k". You see "here lies John Smith, beloved husband, son, father, etc". Try to think about what values are most important to you, and what you can be doing to attend to them. Is money a value? Probably not. Maybe it's really financial security. Where does family rank? Do your actions reflect their position in your hierarchy of values? Love, honesty, faith (if you're religious) are some examples. Love is a really important one. You mentioned being a "loner". Are you making time to find love? A good partner can be an absolute rock, a bulwark against all the shit out there in the world. Landing a $250k a year job might be a great ego boost. But if it's at the expense of other areas of your life, that ego boost will be fleeting - trust me. That's not to say you shouldn't improve your career position. Absolutely, go for it! I'm just saying, make sure your values are in order, so you're focusing on the right things. :)