A short first-person monologue reflecting on meeting men who left corporate city jobs to run businesses, gaining more freedom, impact, and greater financial upside than a capped city salary. The speaker contrasts the limited salary-growth in corporate roles ("probably double your salary") with entrepreneurs' "unlimited upside," cites freedom from needing a boss's permission for time off, and describes his own turn toward personal development and leaving the city after observing these trade-offs.
You met so many men and women, but men who were living life more on their terms, and it didn't mean that everything was perfect. And they all still had, I call them silent struggles, but it just showed you a window to what was possible for men that were running businesses, making impact. And two other things. They had unlimited upside of earning. Because when I worked in the city and everyone I worked with, the most you were ever going to do was probably double your salary. So even if you were on 200 grand a year, I'm not saying that going to 400 isn't a bad. Isn't bad, but for me, you just thought, you know, how much, how much you're going to have to work, and you never, you're never going to be able to eat double your salary. Whereas these guys were working, having more impact, having a bit more freedom, and they didn't have to ask for time off from their boss, which, you know, it depends what your values are, but your freedom's high. So, in short, that's what got me kind of interested in personal development, interested in leaving the city. And, you know, soon after that, I'd taken all of what I'd learned and thought, you know, who do I know about? Who do I understand? Men who on paper have got the money, the car, the body, the townhouse, you know, the job, the titles. But actually underneath, part of you was kind of just fucking pissed off with where you were because you either wanted more monetarily as well as any more freedom, but also you just felt like you needed a bit more excitement because you didn't feel alive anymore doing your job.
