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Use your 92k offer to negotiate on the other offer to bridge the gap a little.
You’re marred with kids, 50% is a huge salary difference. Support your family.
There has to be a middle ground here…
Take the chill job. Life is too short to spend it at work.
I would personally actually take the $62K. Being with my kids especially in their early years before middle and high school is SO important and it's our highest priority. We've even talked about selling our house and living in an RV on a small piece of land if it meant we could cut back to just one salary and one of us could stay home.
Would you give up a few hours of overtime pay in order to see your kid's recital, or soccer game? The answer to that question will help you decide. It all depends on how much you prioritize more time with your family vs more money.
95 all day, that is a significant difference.
I’d go 95k, test it out and if it’s really that bad, leverage off that salary for a better position.
I would go with the 95k.
I thought I wouldn’t see the day where I’d see someone ask themselves if they should have a lower salary for a more chill job. Brother what’s going to be more chill is having more money to wife those kids up for some more brothers and sisters. Why would you ever ask yourself if it’s worth it imo to have time to see the kids? Shoot you’ll see em at soccer practice when you can afford to send them to a good school and pay for daycare. 100% take the job though that you can do the best in. Because if you feel that they’re asking more out of you it’s probably because they should since I reckon you wouldn’t want to pay someone without asking the most of that person but think of it like this. Some people can handle that burden and some don’t look forward to more responsibility and act their wage. You need to choose which one you want to be though and you have such an amazing chance to increase your earnings but that doesn’t mean you can’t get that again. I just think what some people are suggesting is if you’re willing to take a lower paying job now you may be fronted with low ball pay in the future but I don’t think that’s true. You can choose to add on a higher paying job down the road once the kids grow up if you want. I don’t see a reason why you can’t up your salary once you’re ready to take on the additional responsibility. So a bit of tit for tat in what I said but it’s because I’m like okay there’s a good reason why this guy is asking this. You’re right in that you only live that one time once and you want to more time for those kids while they’re young. I respect that. I don’t think this has an easy answer. Just a lot of thinking to do.
I chose the $350k and work from home option. This magical optimal option came to me after many years of always taking the brutal option. Choose wisely, young person.
I think the middle ground is time to build a side business. Weird that there’s such a large pay difference. Do they make up for it through some other means?