Originally Posted by Ryan002

This is bankerville, you know that right? It's mostly home to people who have sacrificed so much of their personal life that now, the only thing they can do is compare income. Even if they're not bankers (I'm not), most of us have sacrificed any actual talent or love of the job for the pursuit of cash.

Which isn't a bad thing, it's just the way some of us choose to define ourselves.

You're not a loser. You probably define yourself in other ways. Maybe you like having more free time. Maybe you'd rather be an Apple than a Microsoft. If you make less, odds are you don't spend every waking hour reading finance blogs and thinking up ways to make money. And you know...making money is like basketball or tennis. You keep doing it, you do it everyday, and sooner or later you'll get better at it.

The high earners here aren't more talented than you. They're better than you at making money because they obsesses about it every day. Anything that you obsess over every day, you will eventually become good at. That's all. So you're not a loser; you just have different interests and priorities.