/biz/ - Business & Finance

>31yr middle manager in the IT department of a normie corporation
>make $120k, 6% 401k match, 9-5 hours, work fully remote, no work on the weekends unless there's a system release which is like twice a quarter honestly

my friends are all either lawyers, doctors, work in actual FAANG tech companies, or do some high finance VC/IB shit. all of their salaries are at least double mine, all put down payments on houses that are either really fucking nice and/or in really desirable areas, and none of them work crazy hours. i'm happy for them and want them to succeed but i'm literally the bum of the group and i feel like a failure. how do i cope? it's hard to stay motivated at work.