Two people left jobs for less pay and don't regret it. They push back on the myth that starting a company guarantees wealth, noting most talented people fail quietly while outliers get celebrated. One hopes to eventually earn more than before but isn't there yet.
I can remember at least one occasion of you saying, would I be earning more money if I had stayed in my job? Yes, 100%. Would I go back and change it? 100% no. Do you still feel that? 100%. And both are still true.
I still earn less than I used to earn. I still wouldn't change it for a second. The problem I think we have in the modern world, we want to celebrate success or outlandish or Off-the-ratio success extremely well, and they're the stories that everyone hears and gets excited by. What they don't talk about is the tens and tens and tens of thousands of people that haven't made it, even though they probably had just as much talent, just as good an idea. It's almost dangerous for people to say, you should go and set up your own company if you want to make money. And I'm lucky enough that I make reasonable money, and I have aspirations and envisage at some point in the future making more money than I used to make. I believe we're on track to do that, but we're definitely not there yet.
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