Ive been thinking about how salary growth feels very different depending on where you start. When you’re earlier in your career, a 10k raise can feel life-changing. Later on, even bigger jumps don’t hit the same way. It makes me wonder if motivation naturally shifts from income to something else over time.

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As you get more experience, and get older, there seems to be a sobering effect. What would be a big achievement when you're just starting out becomes sort of an ordinary event. That's partly because as money comes in there's more of a plan for where it's going to go. When you're young and suddenly you've got money in your pocket things you're more inclined to be impulsive.

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Money matters more when you don’t have any 💁‍♂️

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Money means more work. Once you get to a level where the money is comfortable, you want to have less work. A 20K bump is still money, it’s just now I have to give up something more for it.

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