Leo RN.
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Asking for a friend:
If you found a job that was much closer to home, seemed like a lot less stress, BUT was a significant paycut (though still decent money), would you apply for it, or would you stick with the much better paid but ultimately more difficult job?
Again this is purely for a friend
Reduced travel time and stress is pay in Not Feeling Drained, I find. So, so long as thereās no caveats, I would say worth it.
Depends on how much you need the better pay. If you still managed to live decently (and maybe with potential payrises in future?), and by decently I donāt mean paycheck to paycheck, and the current job was severely negative to my mood and healthā¦ probably.
If itās just the better paying job being more difficult, maybe not though. Though it sounds like itās also less convenient in commute time and whatnot.
Can you live on the new cut wages?
If so-- apply.
Itās not that I hate the job I have right now - I rather enjoy it for the most part - itās just that my work life balance since I started it has been āNoā, and I canāt see it improving much into the next year =(
I had to have a lot of sleepless nights to catch up with my workload and while in my first year I enjoyed a āYeah letās ball!ā enthusiasm to prove I could do it - I just dont know if Iāve got it in me to be spending another year chained to my laptop virtually every hour God sends 
I dont have many ambitions in this life but I do at least want a job where I can actually go to bed sometimes.
Also Wyll deffo wants Githyanki butt.
He is so into Laeāzal that its not even funny.
No kidding dude, Iāve SEEN you on these very forums because of the sleepless nights trying to sort your work out.
But as i asked-- if you took the pay cut for the new job, can you live on it?
Because you are definitely burning yourself out and thatās not good.
So in British money terms (Iām far too patriotic to put an asterisk in there not even sorry), instead of being on 37 thousand little pictures of His Majesty the King a year, Iād be on 30 thousand little pictures instead - which is still a hell of a wage, and a lot more than most people I know are on (I know how lucky am donāt worry!), but a fair drop, equating to about 300 little pictures of the King less each month.
So itās a fairly significant amount gone, but I could still quite easily live on it - though in a rare moment of lucid thinking, Iām looking long term and noticing with some foreboding that my mortgage is up for renewal next year, and those inflation rates dont seem to be getting any lower 
Also with the absolute state of my dating life, Iām worried it would also impact my āI might not have the looks, the body, OR the personality - but I do have money!ā gambit of attracting the ladies.
BUT on the other hand, it seems like the sort of job thatād be less actively trying to kill me so there is that?!
Given my income is literally 300 pictures a month I suspect youāll be okay - perhaps then you can come back to LT so I can bully you lovingly in person I miss dog preacher
I am unironically returning this very weekend Iāll see you in two days nerd
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Bruh, I am a Brit. I literally crawled out of a gutter in London.
Would the mortgage kill the ability to live to 30k a year?
Come watch my ritual on Friday 11pm or else 
(Ella isnāt coming but thinks sheāll be around next year)
Now I think about it my LT character is literally Kaitylinn without the expansive uuuuhhhh
āpersonalityā
Well it depends how much it goes up by!
Currently itās 300 pictures of the King a month but Iāve heard in the news some peopleās mortgages have shot up double or even nearly tripled in some cases which is bonkers (at this point I genuinely join Stonetower on the stockades an Englishmanās home is his castle and I cannot bear to see so many turfed out of their own!)
So I could potentially take a rise in mortgage if it did come to that but less so than if I stayed in my current job so to speak - Iād just have to hope it didnāt go up too much or itās time to sell that kidney Iāve been saving
Make sure, if you donāt have one already, you get a mortgage broker/expert. Check around, get one with a good reputation, and that will definitely help. My first period of fixed mortgage is about to run out (October) and my broker has taken all the stress out of it, giving me the best options and working out whatās best for me on the income I have, especially given how volatile things are at the moment (thanks, Gubāmintā¦)
Provided things are comfortable enough to get by, my personal leaning would be to take the option that leaves you not burning the candle at both ends. Thatās no way to live, I sadly know from experience.
oh great, 516 error, canāt save my game, did all the deletes, still canāt save and got to start again.
Who are you planning to date with your current work hours? Your work? Idk she seems kinda abusive.
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Look. Another class.
17 years later.
Saltzpyre goth gf? 'tis a shame I donāt play the rat game anymore.