[UnpossibleJim]

Those are good reasons, I'm not going to deny that but there's something to be said for enjoying life while you're young enough to take full advantage of it. Being poor(ish) when you're young isn't the worst thing in the world, when you have no real responsibilities. Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond, when those real responsibilities hit always made more sense to me... but I may have done all of it wrong. I don't know.

[aiwv]

> Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond

I sort of think grinding is generally wrong at any age. If you feel like you're grinding, perhaps it's time to take stock and consider what you could be doing differently so that you don't have to keep grinding to both meet your responsibilities and enjoy life. Of course some might find themselves with enough exigencies they have almost no choice but to grind, but I doubt too many people on HN are really in that boat.

[ZephyrBlu]

Investing time early on can permanently change your trajectory.

My experience has been that "grinding" has very big returns. When you're starting out, putting in 2x more time gets you way more than 2x returns over the same period of time.

Personally I'm happy to "grind" for a few years at the start of my career to set myself up for the rest of my life.

[hgomersall]

Right, if you're not doing it for the journey, maybe you need to find another destination or a better route or something.

[swagasaurus-rex]

Maybe there's no right answer and everybody meanders through life goals at their own pace, or not at all.

The requirement to make enough money to survive is unignorable. Anything beyond that is just making up goalposts. There's always another goalpost you could strive to reach.