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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are focusing on the outliers who achieved great success in their fields while most in these very fields earn a lot less.

Tech? It pays less than what you do unless you are a founder of a successful startup, investor or a super talented engineer in a niche field with patents to your name, or a government contractor with lots of employees (e.g. business owner).

Finance? only pays in revenue generating tracks, and that goes for privately owned companies, there are many more "support" and BAU roles in Finance that pay about the same as what you earn or less.

Law? If you are a law associate or in-house lawyer you aren't making 7 figures.  Most with law degrees never make it to partner level or even break into the Big Law.

Maybe if you specialized in medicine you would have made more, maybe you still can? If not, you could try to grow your career by focusing on leadership and administration in the hospital system setting.  One of my friends got into that and works more standard hours and gets more pay. [/quote]

I am comparing myself not to strangers but to peers—former classmates and friends who have done better.[/quote]

How many of all of the people you know have done better? and how much better? Do you also consider those who had done worse than you? Where does it put you? If you are the comparison type of person you have to look towards the bottom feeders and consider them in your statistics of probability of success in your field/education, etc. too.   You might end up being somewhere in the middle.  Sure you have some wealthy friends who had done much better, but are they minority of majority of all the others you know?  You are still comparing yourself to the tippy top and ignoring averages and bottoms , which is a robber of happiness [/quote]

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