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When people die, their last words are never, “I wish that I worked more.”
Happiness and stress management are very important.
Preach!
In my opinion you should factor in your happiness, if your not happy with moving and it also negatively affects your relationship that’s something to consider. Also with your high income you should look into investing (stocks, real estate) so you can benefit from your hard work and can focus on doing what makes you happy
My advice would be to get a short term rental property, with 75k you’ll have plenty of options to put down 20-25% on something good and have money left over to fix it up to a A+ look (easy fixes & furniture not a flip) go look up how much airbnbs/Vrbos are doing per night in your area and see what the houses with similar comps are selling for and that’ll be a good starting point. Your property will go up in value and return a healthy cash flow! You can even pay a prop manager 8-15% to manage everything for you and you just collect the returns. Worst case scenario you rent it out for the morgage and your gaining equity. Do some more research!
33 female, no kids but maybe one day soon, don’t like the hours, but making about $160k - $180k per year. Hoping to find a producer role where I can make a little less, remotely and have better work life balance. Am I making a huge mistake by not accepting this full time offer?
Not a mistake. Always go with your gut. Forcing yourself into something you aren’t fully excited about never works out for long.
Rising Star
No, not a huge mistake. Seems pretty simple, really. If neither of you want the city life, no reason to force it. If you’d said it’s something you’d do for a couple years and it would set you up great for the rest of your career, then maybe. But you didn’t say that!
That’s good. Not one on my team has kids, it’s not possible to have kids and do this job.
I’ve been a producer now for almost a decade but the last two years I’ve been working for this massive FAANG company and I feel like I peaked, in terms of needing to prove myself.