The higher salary doesn't seem as important to me as it used to. I'd rather have the ability to work remotely, arrange my day with some flexibility, and not feel that my job owns every waking hour. I know that could mean earning less, but I'm wondering whether people who've made that choice are happier with it?
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@b9 seems weird to value money over time
You can’t take it with you. I wish I had my years back instead of wasting them here.
@a2 still a lower level
@b9 rude of you to assume what people have or haven't experienced. you can have your personal values and but financial security does not need to mean losing a base line respectable work life balance.
How about I tell you that you've never experienced spending a week of 12-14hr days in the office due to prod installs and then had to wake up in the early morning hours on the weekend because of 24/7 on-calls, on top of your increasingly demanding workload.
fid used to be known as a place that underpays but gives you good wlb and that culture is going away, and the office is one more thing making it worse for a lot of folks. They don't pay enough to be competitive with what they're asking of some people.
@b9 or spend the time with your family while you have them…
Especially with the estimated $20 minimum wage by 2030. That’s a big cut to my pay and we don’t get raises for inflation
I will always value money more than my time. You've never had to stand in a hospital lobby and wonder if you'll be able to afford treatment for your terminally Ill parent.
These petty things like driving to work everyday fade away, you are happy to sit in your car and eat lunch every single day because cafeteria lunch is too expensive. I am not writing this for any other reason than for people to realize that and be thankful for what and who they have in their lives.
@a1 what level did you move to?
I sincerely regret going up a grade and taking a job I did not know was sweatshop levels of work, never hearing the end of it if you don’t finish.
I miss my freedom.
Miserable.