[rsuelzer]

I've been remote for 5 years. I have been happy to take a 50% reduction in what I could be making. In the past, I would wake up in the morning and find myself willing to pay more money than I would make that day in order to not have to go into work. The economics of that didn't work out. I also work for a mission driven organization that is on a tight budget. I make enough money, but more importantly, I have not had a single day in five years where I didn't want to go to work. That's pretty priceless.

[Waterluvian]

I hear you on that.

When I switched to remote I thought “I’d take about a 25% pay cut to be full remote.”

Having done it for almost four years I’d probably take a 50% pay cut to stay remote.

It’s just completely life altering. Especially given I have two young kids I want to be deeply involved with raising.

[weatherlight]

I completely agree. (largely because of covid), I got to see both my children grow up and then go to elementry school. I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.

[greenie_beans]

Same, it’s hard reading about these outlandish compensations compared to mission-driven work. But then I remind myself of this.