Anyone else scroll through LinkedIn and constantly feel behind in their career? Everyone I know is exiting from MBB to VC/PE and I’m still making peanuts at Big 4. How do you deal with knowing you’re mediocre/less sharp?

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I keep the following perspective: my job doesn't definite me and I don't define success as being the best or making the most at my job. Here's some tough love: we are all mediocre at most things. You are as well. Get over it and embrace what makes you happy. Life is too short to chase an impossible and arbitrary ideal.

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2 things: comparison is the thief of joy and Linkedin is garbage.

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Comparison is truly the thief of joy.
3 years ago I made 72.5k, I was envious of people making 80 or 90k. Now I make 125k, I’m still envious of people making 170k…. Don’t think this will stop 🥴

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