IMO if you could model it as a function, the limit would be the point where any additional income wouldn't change your lifestyle significantly. In other words, if you would still take Job A with salary 50K over Job B with salary 10mm because the 9.95 mm doesn't change your standard of living. For this to be true, you have to have wealth which provides you with a maximal standard of living.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 

Ya but most people on here would tell you that even when you have the wealth level to make that kind of decision, you still want to make the $10mm because you always want more. There is a reason that there aren't many MD's retired at 45 living in a $400,000 house comfortably. They could have easily put away enough money to barely need to work and do something they enjoy while supporting a nice lifestyle, but they continue to work harder and spend faster to keep up with their peers.

 
NickTheRichard:
Ya but most people on here would tell you that even when you have the wealth level to make that kind of decision, you still want to make the $10mm because you always want more. There is a reason that there aren't many MD's retired at 45 living in a $400,000 house comfortably. They could have easily put away enough money to barely need to work and do something they enjoy while supporting a nice lifestyle, but they continue to work harder and spend faster to keep up with their peers.

I agree with what you're saying but I'm not talking about MD level (8 figure) wealth. I mean when you get to Abramovich/Porokhov level of wealth it's about achievement not money.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 
Independent Gestion:
NickTheRichard:
Ya but most people on here would tell you that even when you have the wealth level to make that kind of decision, you still want to make the $10mm because you always want more. There is a reason that there aren't many MD's retired at 45 living in a $400,000 house comfortably. They could have easily put away enough money to barely need to work and do something they enjoy while supporting a nice lifestyle, but they continue to work harder and spend faster to keep up with their peers.

I agree with what you're saying but I'm not talking about MD level (8 figure) wealth. I mean when you get to Abramovich/Porokhov level of wealth it's about achievement not money.

Ha! When you get to that level it becomes all about telling everyone to fuck off.

 
<span class=keyword_link><a href=//www.wallstreetoasis.com/company/sac-capital>SAC</a></span>:
Im with Busey:
I find myself more interested in being a part of something big, perhaps I'm more addicted to the success (success is subjective) and accomplishment than I am the money.

Something big like what ? A revolution ? :)

Well, it isn't the govament that is running this country...

 
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It's always about the money, because wealth is relative, not absolute. When you graduate from college and take that analyst gig, you're feeling pretty wealthy as compared to your Teach for America friends, but then you look at the guys a few years older than you at PE firms and you think "Damn, I want to make that kind of money." It's all about reaching that next rung, even if it doesn't change your lifestyle much. As one very wealthy family friend once said to me "First, it's about fuck you money. Then you want a vacation home in the Hamptons. Then it becomes about private jet money. And even for the guys who've got private jet money, they're out there trying to make cure malaria money. It's never enough."

- Capt K - "Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham
 

I think the MD retirement example is more due to the fact that no one wants to sit on their ass for 40 years doing nothing + the achievement factor. Things also change when you have a family/kids etc. There are a lot of miserable billionaires and a lot of very content hundred thousandaires. Personally, financial achievement is important in the near term and for long term security...but if an extra 5 million means I miss my grandchildren being born or have to move my 10th grader away from his school and wife away from her friends/family...I think a lot of men in that position would say it's not worth it. The perspective of someone in their 20's and someone in their 40's and 50's is quite different.

 
<span class=keyword_link><a href=//www.wallstreetoasis.com/company/sac-capital>SAC</a></span>:
Cartwright:
I think the MD retirement example is more due to the fact that no one wants to sit on their ass for 40 years doing nothing + the achievement factor. .

True. In our society, our identities are tied to our jobs/professions. Retirement may leave a lot of people feeling worthless and without a sense of purpose.

Which is why I think work keeps retirees going. Obviously, staying at the MD level when you're 65 is not ideal, but working at a golf course or being a senior year econ/finance teacher in a high school is something I definitely can see myself doing at that age.

 

I agree with what everyone has been saying but there are exceptions. Yes, for achievement-oriented people like (most of) us it's a level 1 to level 2 to..... level "n" pay requirement system. But some people shirk larger rewards for internal satisfaction. My dad for example was an Ivy league MBA and undergrad who never had one bit of interest in money and has taught/researched it instead for 30 years for a fraction of what he could have made. That's where work becomes about satisfaction rather than money.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 
I find it pretty amazing to be a part of a group that makes big decisions, is in the newspaper, is praised at times and panned at times, getting to see the way that Market X responds to Situation Y. It's very existential and esoteric, but in my own mind it makes sense.

Completely agree...that's why I prefer M&A to being in S&T--it's the opportunity to play even a very peripheral role in something significant

 
AstonMartin:
I find it pretty amazing to be a part of a group that makes big decisions, is in the newspaper, is praised at times and panned at times, getting to see the way that Market X responds to Situation Y. It's very existential and esoteric, but in my own mind it makes sense.

Completely agree...that's why I prefer M&A to being in S&T--it's the opportunity to play even a very peripheral role in something significant

Seconded

 

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