You’ll meet people with more money and less peace. Ambition is fine. Just keep track of what you’re trading.

Money and calm are not the same axis, and you can travel a long way up one while sliding down the other. Having more does not automatically unsettle a person, though the way it tends to be got can: longer hours, constant comparison, a standard of living that needs the income to keep arriving. So the question is never whether ambition is good. It is what this particular version of it is costing you.

Keep a rough running account of the trade. Notice how you sleep, who you have stopped seeing, whether you can take a Sunday off. Those readings tell you whether the deal is still good.