[ALittleLight]

I would say just do it. Towards the start of covid I looked at my employee stock awards program for the first time in a decade and realized I was pretty rich, so I quit. Now I spend my time with my wife and children and I work on the random projects that interest me. It's very low stakes programming, a few hundred stars on github, a bug opened by a random person every few months, and I run a couple websites that see hundreds of visitors a month. Getting into creating TikTok videos as well. I enjoy it.

I don't understand how it's hard to give up the FAANG compensation. Do you want money for the sake of having more money? Personally, I want money to enable me to do things that I want to do in life, which are the things I listed above. Once I had enough I stopped trying to get more.