Recently, I’ve moved to San Francisco in search of new adventures. I started working for Uber 1.5 months ago and have been very busy with that. I decided it was time to slowly step back a little bit and re-evaluate my life. I’ll use the same criteria as in my previous posts – physical, mental, financially, spiritually.

Physically:

Could get better. I’ve been gaining body fat % this year from 10-12% range -> 16-17%. Ideally I’d like to hit the gym every morning before work to mitigate the continued increase of this. I would say it’s definitely taking a toll on my stress and happiness levels as exercise definitely helps with that.

Mentally:

My desire to continue to improve in life rather than just my career has been nagging me for a while now this year. I think I will have to further explore exactly what I want. There’s not much left on my original bucket list, perhaps a few more places to travel, meet a few more friends, explore a few more hobbies – but that’s about it.

Financially:

I was able to negotiate very heavily at my current position, and received a sizeable CTO-approved compensation package. I make a good amount cash wise and am trying to fit in the 50/30/20 bucket – where you spend 50% of your money on necessities (nice housing, nice car etc), 30% on entertainment (raves, concerts, parties, social events, etc). 20% I just save in general – originally this was for an emergency fund of a few months of income in case something went south but I have that already. So now I need to look into more active ways to invest this portion of my money. Honestly, 50/30/20 is a nice and moderate rule to follow and if you factor in my stocks and bonus which is likely equal to my base salary once Uber IPOs then I’m currently saving 50% inherently + another 20% of my 50% so 60% total. I question exactly what type of value proposition money brings me specifically(is it happiness, is it security, why do i want more money?), but it’s nice to not have to worry about it for now.

Spiritually:

To me currently, this section mostly just means my close friends for me. I need to be more focused on spending time with them, realizing that they’re human, being kind, and really spending time together. One difficulty I have is that I’m so used to spending time with tech people, but also would prefer to get to know a more diverse set of people. Hopefully I can continue to explore this part of my life without being too close minded. I wonder if picking up a few extra hobbies would help with this 🙂