Money Vs. Happiness

• pmoney25

  

  So I am getting a New Job offer tomorrow. New Company/Industry. My total compensation seems like it may decrease by about 10k a year(higher salary/lower commission/bonus than current job.) The hours would go down from about 50 to 40-42. No Saturdays and More time with family.
  
  Question is Take New Job and be happier or Keep current job and make more money. Granted 10k is not a huge amount of difference but almost $1000 a month loss is not that easy to give up.
• justincredible

  

  Happiness.
• UA5straightin2008

  

  money.
• GoChiefs

  

  If you can afford to take the new job..then happiness. But if you can't..obviously the money.
• Be Nice

  Money...it will bring happiness.
• Curly J

  

  Happiness. I took a 5 dollar per hour pay cut many years ago due to hating my job.Don't ask me how it happened, cause I don't know, but in less than a year I had more money in my checking account than when I was making more money...plus lots of happiness
• killdeer

  

  Happiness. Peace of mind is priceless.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  Money is great. Happiness is greater.
• hasbeen

  

  How long you been married? How old are kids? Can you afford not having the extra money for their future?
• queencitybuckeye

  Happiness - if you can afford it. Being in a satisfying job is a wonderful thing, but priority one is to take care of one's family.
• Teabagger

  depends if you are going from something like 100k to 90k, or 50k to 40k. Everyone can say happiness all they want, but when you are strapped and living paycheck to paycheck happiness will be perceived differently imo. like everyone else says, if you can afford it than certainly happiness is more important, but if you will have to change your life even a little less money may be a big problem. i think i make a decent wage but losing almost a grand a month would kill me.
• RLDE34

  Depends. Losing 10K off of a 50K salary is different than losing it from 100k.
• RLDE34

  echo
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  God I'd hate to have to be responsible for other human beings.
• pmoney25

  

  I would be going from 70 to 60 k. Also should note, I absolutely hate my current job. My wife makes good money also and we can afford the loss, but the extra money is nice to have. I have to know by 2PM what my decision will be. Leaning towards the less paying job.
• rmolin73

  

  Happiness hands down.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Moneyness
• rmolin73

  

  AHA^^^^
• power i

  

  9 years ago I was in the same situation. Because we could afford it, I took the lower paying job. I often think it would be nice to have the extra money, but I'm in a job I love and much closer to home. There is nothing more important than happiness and if you are happy the kids won't mind doing with a little less.
• Con_Alma

  Spending more time with my children and wife would easily be worth $10,000.
• Goldenboy26

  

  happiness, you can cut spending elsewhere to make up some of the $10,000, you cant make a job that you currently hate better.
• noreply66

  happiness
• ernest_t_bass

  

  My wife took a took a new job about 1.5 years ago. Lower paying, way less flexibility, and she had a 2 minute drive, apposed to 15 minute drive. It worked great, for the family, her, and the kids!
  
  Well, her company moved to a nearby city, and now she has to drive 40 minutes to work, and she isn't getting paid anymore.
  
  You make the call.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Also, I have to ad... Happiness isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Many people will take security/stability over happiness, b/c it takes away worry. Over happiness, many of us would rather be (in the words of the great Pink Floyd) comfortably numb
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  $1,000 a month is way too much money to give up, especially when you have a family involved.