[bayraktar]

Getting myself "managed out" at the expense of all of those things would be hugely problematic.

Agreed - and corporate life often gets that way.

But another way of looking at the payoff matrix might be: "I've got kids to support - and that means having parents they can trust, and look up to in this chaotic and morally ambivalent world. Even if it means we might have to work a year or two more before being able to retire more comfortably, or we might not get to take that vacation to Tulum this year."

[bryanrasmussen]

>I've got kids to support - and that means having parents they can trust, and look up to in this chaotic and morally ambivalent world.

that's a high level of Maslow's hierarchy there, especially in the U.S with few support nets heading into what will probably be a really bad recession.

[mrguyorama]

If you work in this industry and don't have at least a year's pay squirreled away, where the hell is all your money going?

[bryanrasmussen]

really?`you are unable to think of any situation where people would be unable to save a year's worth of pay?