re: When it comes to your job, what do you value more - time or money?

$ / hr

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My current scenario is I make $72k + ~$5k in side income. I'm home by 3:30pm every day. I get every weekend off. A week at Thanksgiving. Two weeks at Christmas. A week at spring break. 2 months for summer. And multiple 3 day weekends throughout the year.

I'm a teacher.

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i did not need to read any further to know you are a male teacher

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I make less than that and we definitely aren't "broke". We actually live quite comfortably, but we do something that most seemingly aren't capable of--living within your means.

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That's because everyone here makes $10 million a year...

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A) $110k-$120k a year with 3 weeks of PTO but working almost every weekend and two late nights a week

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This job would have to pay 500k a year or more so I could build enough wealth to retire by age 40

Both of those options suck, and I wouldn’t do either. But if those were my only choices I’d take the less money. Not spending time with my children would be a non-starter.

From experience I would chose B ..... kids grow up and are moving out in a flash when you work all of the time. I wish they were little again.

I value my wife’s time spent with our children more than money.

I work ~48 hours/week(3, 12-hour day shifts + 1 12-hour night-shift a week.

My work schedule(with the added shift bonuses and/or incentives for that single extra night shift a week (thanks-be-to-God) make it possible for my wife to work just 2 days per month, and thus spend the rest of her time at home watching over our two young children.

I gladly sacrifice my time to make this possible, because the flip-side would see my wife working 40-hours/wk at her medical office job-grind, while simultaneously having to pony-up that $$$ for today’s outrageous child-care racket, while also missing-out on that time with our young children.

Make about the same doing this, a little more actually, when everything is factored in.

I take a break from that schedule every 4 months or so.

did B