Recently, the company I work at filed to go public. As is usual with such things, they are remaining very tight-lipped about scheduling, so I don't know exactly when, but probably in the next handful of months.
And although this company should rank as the most exciting and successful one I've worked for in my entire career, and could provide me with a life-changing amount of money and the ability to (semi) retire if they do well...
I just don't feel any excitement over it.
Don't get me wrong, I want it to happen, and I want them to do well, as it directly affects my own financial success and could enable me to free myself of the rat race (which I *am* excited to do). But as far as years from now, looking back on all this and thinking it was one of the most exciting times I lived though...nope. I'm just not feeling it.
I've written before that I don't care about the journey anymore, just the reward, and that pretty much sums up my feelings right now. My original stock grant has one more year until its four-year vesting is complete, and then there's really no more financial upside. The golden handcuffs fall off, so to speak, and after that it's really just a paycheck every two weeks. To me, even an employee stock purchase plan isn't worth sticking around for because at most, it would mean a few more thousand dollars per year, but that wouldn't be enticing enough to make me stay.
I'm curious if anybody else has been through this? Been someplace that should rank on tops of anywhere you've been at, but you're so burned out you just don't care?
And although this company should rank as the most exciting and successful one I've worked for in my entire career, and could provide me with a life-changing amount of money and the ability to (semi) retire if they do well...
I just don't feel any excitement over it.
Don't get me wrong, I want it to happen, and I want them to do well, as it directly affects my own financial success and could enable me to free myself of the rat race (which I *am* excited to do). But as far as years from now, looking back on all this and thinking it was one of the most exciting times I lived though...nope. I'm just not feeling it.
I've written before that I don't care about the journey anymore, just the reward, and that pretty much sums up my feelings right now. My original stock grant has one more year until its four-year vesting is complete, and then there's really no more financial upside. The golden handcuffs fall off, so to speak, and after that it's really just a paycheck every two weeks. To me, even an employee stock purchase plan isn't worth sticking around for because at most, it would mean a few more thousand dollars per year, but that wouldn't be enticing enough to make me stay.
I'm curious if anybody else has been through this? Been someplace that should rank on tops of anywhere you've been at, but you're so burned out you just don't care?