Career change

More money + commute + stress
Less money + no commute + no stress
I currently work from home office
Not desperate yet. So still have choices.
With every positive, comes a negative.
We still have a mortgage, but it's manageable.
Plenty of things to consider.
 
Nope full time, but a completely different (and much less stressful) job.
5 minute commute, discount on equipment (I actually started as a customer)
Doing rough math it would be about a 15-20k pay cut from my current home based role. As for that 1 hour commute, it's one way, back roads, all year. For a 50k raise in pay and probably more stress as I would go back to management.

Luckily at this point I'm not desperate, so I enjoy exploring options.
I'm also keeping some details vague on purpose.
It sounds like you have a healthy control of the financial wheel.

It's sad when a person or couple has a freakout over a $20 surcharge because they're picking up their kid late at daycare and it means they have to go to the food bank or they miss their mortgage payment. There are a lot of them and the present political circus isn't taking down the tents.
 
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Not a hope in hell that I would even contemplate a 1 hour commute one way...did that for 9 months at my first job out of university working for Xerox...lived in Oakville and drove to Victoria Park and Sheppard...I knew this wasn't for me when one day, I was on the 401 around the 400 and I didn't know how the hell I had gotten there...quit that and found my first full time banking job with a small trust company in Oakville (had experience from working at CIBC during the summers for 4 years prior)...heck, when hubby and I were dating and talking about getting married, I told him there's no way I'd move to Cambridge, so if he wanted to get hitched, he'd have to move to Milton...there's something to be said being 3 km from work and not having to deal with all the crazies on the highway...

Maybe you could increase that offer from your current part-time employer to something closer to what you're looking for...for me, my time is precious, and not to mention you'd be saving on fuel, oil changes, wear and tear on your vehicle, etc...good luck!
Being too close has its drawbacks. I knew a maintenance guy that lived a block from the plant. He got every alarm call because he was so close.

Up to a half hour is OK for me
 
Being too close has its drawbacks. I knew a maintenance guy that lived a block from the plant. He got every alarm call because he was so close.

Up to a half hour is OK for me
In that instance yes. For 99% being close typically is a good thing.
 
Grow yellow beans. I had a taste for some instead of the green ones and they were $8.00 a pound. Green were $3.00. Vegetable caviar.
I couldn't grow enough for it to provide yearly income.
But I like your thinking 🤔
 
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