Would you take a job you genuinely hate for double the pay?
Miserable Monday to Friday, but the bank account heals everything — or does it? What's two years of your sanity worth?
Miserable Monday to Friday, but the bank account heals everything — or does it? What's two years of your sanity worth?
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Add your commentTwo years of hell for a house deposit that takes ten years otherwise? In a heartbeat. Peace is a luxury you have to buy first.
People who say 'money isn't worth your happiness' have usually never been broke enough to find out it kind of is.
Did exactly this. The money was real, but I aged five years in two and my marriage paid the invoice. No amount un-does that.
The trap is that 'two years' becomes ten, because the lifestyle grows to swallow the salary. Nobody hates a job their way to freedom.
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