I'm not rich. I didn't grow up rich. It has nothing to do with growing up rich.
I know people who are not rich, have held the same job for 10+ years, and think it's very important.
This is my ideology: a bird does not feel safety from being on a sturdy branch, but from his self belief that he can always fly to a new branch at any time.
> This is my ideology: a bird does not feel safety from being on a sturdy branch, but from his self belief that he can always fly to a new branch at any time.
and maybe that's always been true for you, which is an aspect of being, if not rich, certainly quite fortunate in some way. I felt that way when I was 22, but I had a naive view of the market and my own place in it. There will very likely be a time where that's not true, but if you don't believe that, then the smart move would be to buy the most expensive house you can with debt; you'll never miss me a payment.
Getting new jobs has never been easy for me, and it's getting harder every year, because of ludicrous hiring processes and not choosing to live in any arbitrary forest with flimsy branches.
The problem as well with the analogy is that you'd be stupid to intentionally choose to work for companies that can't pay you, if you need to be paid. It's more likely that you can weather this if you've already been paid, and therefore it's more wise to jump from flimsy branch to sturdy branch until you feel like the risk of the flimsy branch is tolerable.
Therefore, unless I have hundreds of thousands of dollars lined up, I won't be quitting my job before looking for a new one, and that new one will be scrutinized heavily to ensure it can hold my weight.
I know people who are not rich, have held the same job for 10+ years, and think it's very important.
This is my ideology: a bird does not feel safety from being on a sturdy branch, but from his self belief that he can always fly to a new branch at any time.