After staying at a job for too long by 2008 and barely surviving the recession at a startup until 2012 and also getting married the same year and (gladly) becoming the father to my then 9 and 14 year old stepsons, I changed jobs six times and pushed myself to get ahead until 2020 and falling into a mid level position at BigTech (cloud consulting department).

I then tried to stay on the treadmill and I spent about a year working toward a promotion by increasing my “scope” and “impact”.

I then realized by 2022 at 48 years old, why? I make more than “enough” especially seeing I work remotely.

I then told my manager I was just interested in “improving in my current role” and my wife and I decided to do something completely different:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

I’ve never been happier not trying to be “great” and being “content”