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You don’t really have to rise up the ranks to make 500k. That’s a competitive offer for a senior engineer or where a senior with a mediocre offer will end up with stack refreshers and stock appreciation in a couple of years withouts any promotion. It sounds wild but is true.

Also, many of the roles are just 40hr work weeks. Not that much more stress than a 150k a year job in my experience.

You are right that after a certain point more money doesn’t give you more utility in the present. However, it does buy you time in the future given the capital that you are bound to accumulate and compound.