How much of a salary cut are you all willing to take when it comes to finding a career path? I'm willing to take a pretty big hit to start, it's my mental health over money at this point.

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I dropped 30% to go from a VP of sales role to an IC role.
Went from 60 hour weeks with a 1 hour (each way) commute plus spending 2 nights in hotels a week… to WFH, 40 hours (at most) and no travelling. I have 2 kids under 4 and I don’t regret the decision one bit.
For what it’s worth, we moved out of the city and based on a smaller mortgage, property taxes etc, we are net even with previous situation for total income after expenses (less opportunity cost of equity build up in the more expensive home)

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