A good friend of mine shared with me the following LinkedIn post from an Engineering Head: I thought this is really good advice that makes a lot of sense, mostly from my vantage point. There are some things you would appreciate better when you are able to get to a certain position and prior to reaching there, you would appreciate them less. This may be one of them. Anshu is quite right that if you are able to hit that financially secure milestone, the money part is less important compared to the relationships, helping others and finding a bigger purpose. But different people have different beliefs or different models of what is financially secure. Some of your models are to have $5 million dollars. Why does such an absolute $5 million dollar amount gives you security? I have no idea. We asked prospects and some gave us $X and when probed further, we got all sorts of answers....