Who has time for all 4 and the mythical "side hustle"? When you have to sacrifice, which goes first?
1. Job
2. Relationship/Family
3. Health/Fitness
4. Friends

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Job. I do the minimum to stay employed. I will never sacrifice my relationship with family and friends nor my health.

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Friends. I would sacrifice them all day. I make friends just to sacrifice them.

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Job first. To be fair I feel like i maintain all of these pretty well. But if I had to slack in something it would be Job. My job isn’t life or death, and it’s a means to an end. I work to live, not live to work.

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I give up health/fitness first. But only to a certain extent... Like I don't eat garbage 100% all the time but I haven't been to a gym in ages.

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Bye bye friends.
Gotta keep job to support the family. Would never sacrifice family. Health is hard to get back if you sacrifice it.

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I sacrifice all 4 in equal measures. Balance in all things, etc.

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Friends first, family last. My top priority goes to protecting my family, so by extension I will protect my job.

Social life and fitness flip flop in the middle, luckily I don't have much of a family so that's at the bottom. Glorious job which allows me food and shelter at the very top, always (esp since no family to help out if things go wrong).

Friends. Then health/fitness

I’m surprised at the number of people saying friends but it’s so interesting. Health/fitness first for me. Maintaining relationships is big for me and of course so is having a job so I can live.

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