Thanks for engaging with the piece, although reading some content you&#x27;ve put out into the world called &quot;naive&quot; isn&#x27;t a great feeling. I wonder what other word might have been used to accomplish your point without being degrading. &quot;Incomplete&quot; perhaps?<p>To your points:<p>1. Stock options vesting and accomplishing something meaningful to show your value to your next employer are <i>tactical considerations</i> to make if you&#x27;ve decided to leave. So you&#x27;re right that if you establish that your current place of employment won&#x27;t allow you to satisfy your intrinsic motivations, isn&#x27;t in a context you&#x27;re interested in, or won&#x27;t let you accomplish your lifestyle goals, you need a plan to quit. In creating that plan you&#x27;d need to consider the questions you asked, but those are more questions of <i>when</i> to quit, or <i>how</i> to quit, rather than if you <i>should</i> quit.<p>2. Money to fill you bank account is a shallow reason to work - working to support your family or send your kids to college isn&#x27;t - those are intrinsic motivations - to feel like you&#x27;re providing for your family - or to feel like you&#x27;re being a good parent - working to get money in your bank account speaks to responding, like trying to get peer recognition, to an extrinsic motivator - earning more money. Many of my peers when I was in my 20&#x27;s worked for the money, and the toys, but never finding satisfaction in that.<p>I would submit, and particularly in the case of my clients who are all software engineers, that they are able to fulfill most of their lifestyle&#x2F;income goals, while still doing a MUCH better job of understanding what kind of work they want to be doing, and pursuing career opportunities that provide those to them.