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'There wasn't a shred of doubt, and I was getting so sick of going to work there every morning. But I knew I really wanted to do it,' Lewis wrote for Money. 'Looking back, it seems like a giant risk to quit a job that paid me all kinds of money at Salomon for a fairly unknown future as a writer. Since then, he has become a New York Times-bestselling author, and three of his books have been turned into acclaimed, Oscar-nominated movies. It was an account of his time working on Wall Street. Two years later, his first book, 'Liar's Poker,' came out. Lewis also noted that he didn't have any student loans or a family to provide for at the time: 'So I didn't have to let money rule my decisions. It's a point he emphasized in a column he wrote for Money in 2018: 'If I'd stayed, I would have been trapped by that success the money would have gotten too big, and my life would've changed.' 'I was afraid I would become that, and I would lose this desire to do this other thing.' 'You got so needful of the money and the position and the status,' he told Ritholtz. When he looked around at his Salomon co-workers who were years older than him, he realized very few of them would ever end up leaving.

Do this later.''īut Lewis, who was in his mid-20s at the time, had no problem walking away from a massive paycheck. You're probably going to make twice that next year, and then from there, you're going to make lots of money here. 'They said, 'Look, you made $250,000 last year. His bosses at Salomon Brothers 'were worried about my sanity,' he recalls. Lewis got a lot of pushback when he decided to pursue a career as a writer, and not just from friends and family.

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