> I left a $1m+/yr job because the stress was too much. Experiences with tech is a wide gamut but my experience is one of it being a shit show. I have friends w

> I left a $1m+/yr job because the stress was too much. Experiences with tech is a wide gamut but my experience is one of it being a shit show. I have friends who get paid well and have good hours and a great work environment but I’ve never been in that side of being happy at my jobs. I keep joining shitty employers/teams - somewhat out of bad luck tbh. You just made my point for me killer. The median salary in the US is like $57k/yr, and, obviously, for a lot of people it's much less The federal minimum wage is 7.25/hr, which is $15k annually, and people will be often working multiple shit jobs in the middle of nowhere just to make rent and not have the power/heat/water turned off. Meanwhile this guy is getting $1M and boohoo sooooo stressful. Guess I'll have to go home to my fancy SV apartment and enjoy all of these amenities along with the pay bennies; not living in shit-tier parts of Indiana or NM, or MI, etc. People would literally kill for half of that salary; often get killed for far less. The average bank robbery is like $6k. > Same for other odd jobs I picked up. odd jobs. one offs. this wasn't your life for the next 20 years, and you had options, clearly. how many kids did you have to feed on that money?