## Metadata * URL: [https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/](https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/) * Published Date: 2019-10-08 ## Highlights * one mentor gave me the savvy advice that the fastest path to financial success was working for four years at three different just-about-to-IPO companies. A surefire way to retire by forty. (This is, for the record, pretty good advice.) * I have never worked a job where I didn’t experience aspects of burnout. ## Metadata - Author: [[lethain.com|Lethain]] - Full Title:: A forty-year career. - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/ - Finished date:: [[2023-04-17]] ## Highlights > they structured their jobs as lottery tickets bought with their lifeblood, trading tips on managing the symptoms of work until the pearly gates of liquidity opened. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gy8e5aybj6vdrbgmfb5k99n3)) > At Digg, one mentor gave me the savvy advice that the fastest path to financial success was working for four years at three different just-about-to-IPO companies. A surefire way to retire by forty. (This is, for the record, pretty good advice.) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gy8e5qjx400zypfenzkp1v0m))