Lol, you can spend plenty of time on what you want without millions .. come on!

Especially if you have a cozy 200k 40hr/wk 6 weeks of vacation blah blah blah gig

I don't have a cozy 200k 40hr/wk 6 weeks of vacation gig. Would be nice! I'm at about a sixth of that myself, on much longer hours, but I don't work at Google. But even if I did, it wouldn't let me retire within 5 years and still have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life, work on whatever I feel like without ever worrying about making money from it, put my kids through university, buy a house next to my aging parents, with a nice garden space for my wife, have a garage, build a machine shop in the garage just to tinker on the things I've always wanted to, spend my weekday hours going on walks and reading books and camping in the countryside, being a stay-at-home dad, hire a tutor for myself, maybe run a high-risk hardware startup without spending my time pleading with investors or worrying about my family's future in the case of inevitable failure, hire people to help with tasks I struggle to do and pay them well to do it, and still have leftover change to maybe buy a new MRI machine for my local hospital or fund a homeless shelter.

Even $200k would be awesome and get rid of a lot of major stresses and uncertainties like being able to afford my own place to live and a spare bedroom for the kid and worrying out about finding my next paying contract. It would give me "plenty" of time, but not all of my time, not even half of it. I'd still need to keep working most of my daylight hours for most of my healthy years.

Honestly, with a $225 million compensation package, I don't see how someone like Sundar could have any long-term incentives whatsoever. He's set for life and won't be hungry for anything, regardless of how Google performs.

I have a similar sentiment towards ‘what would I be doing if I had this much money on the side’ aka totally risk free life (from the financial perspective) as you do. There is just so much stuff to explore and tinker around and yet most of the millionaires shown in the tv don’t do any of that, instead pursue more money or status. What a waste of time.

At the current pace of savings and earnings I won’t be able to retire in the next 25years, whilst mentally I am already ready to retire to do all the things you listed and more. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to just go for it and start living the life as if I had all the millions laying around and making the most out of my relatively healthy body. But I’m afraid it would be quite stressful to burn through savings and be forced to go back to a corporate job all over again…

Err, I thought time was important? Now you're listing off all of this stuff you don't really need...

Take it from a multi millionaire: it's not that cool. You already have everything you need and more, probably. Start appreciating it..

You sound jealous?

>> You don't have to think money is everything to understand how earning $225 million in a short time will help you with all the things you do care about, whether it's [list of options]

Well yeah? So will 225k as an engineer vs 25k as a bus boy.

Life can still be great. How much money you make isn't really all that important, I'm happy to inform you. No need to be jealous, count your own blessings!

I'm very happy, because my wife is a wonderful person and I love my family, and that's what matters most. Wish we could provide our kids with their own bedroom, but still, life is good. But sorry, wait, that has nothing to do with what we are talking about. I was answering why money, despite not being everything, enables one to spend their time much more freely, and I would gladly invest a few years playing CEO of Alphabet to get back far more time than that over the remaining 40 years of my lifespan, and you are arguing in favour of... declining that job, because money isn't everything?

For all intents and purposes you likely have more free time than the CEO.

No one sane wants the responsibility: that's why it's so valuable. It's not evil.

Glad you're counting you're blessings, now you can stop worrying about CEOs!

Yes indeed a job of a CEO is not an easy peasy one if you are not into politics and power games but IMHO it’s a small price to pay if you are compensated like that and after such a stint you won’t need to work ever again.

The fact that most of the CEOs are still working after receiving such a compensation package shows their different mindset which is probably essential to becoming a CEO in the first place… personally I’d gladly take 1/100th of that and never have to worry about money ever again. Doesn’t mean I would stop working. I’d just stop working for money trying to hack my way into early retirement which probably won’t come anyways.

I know some retired CEOs, and they are not very busy.

Oh, I don't. Definitely don't envy their lives, after working with them.

They all keep working from the few I know, it's a certain kind of person. Almost a curse. Even with hundreds of millions. One is doing django alongside me almost 12hr/day... lol...

I know some retired policemen/public workers and they're doing handsomely. Went hunting one time and this guy was decked out, asked him "what do you do?!" Turns out he's retired police...

How old were those police officers when they retired?

Usually late 40s.

20yrs gets you 50% of your salary for the rest of your life on top of whatever else you saved. 3% more every year you stay on.

The guy I met hunting was in his 50s and has 30+ years in the force. He's getting like 70k/yr lol

Same with my highschool gf's dad.

Gosh, I should have become a police officer!