Originally Posted by
69fastback
Coming from a good corporate airplane, it’s going to take me several years to get back to where I’m at, and the first year paycut is a whole whole lot, but as you guys stated, you just have to suck it up and do it. We are going to live off savings, and I sold a few toys to fund the first year. In the end, I’ll get it all back and get it back relatively quickly.
I did the same thing. Took around a 60% pay cut just on base salary, not including total compensation with stocks. It’ll take a year or two to get back to where I was but the quality of life increase is way worth it.