<p>Would you rather make over $500,000 but hardly ever see your family or $50,000-$60,000 and have adequate time to be with them?</p>
<p>I'm asking this question because over this past year there have been some people- okay 1 person-who I would have liked to have gotten to know better, but I was so darn busy that I never had the time to do so. Now I'm starting to question which is more important- money or time. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>I believe you’re missing an option up there. I’d rather spend quality time with my family than “adequate” time.</p>
<p>If you spend quality time with your family, you’ll reminisce it as adequate time. This also affords you to make as much money as you’d like.</p>
<p>So yes, I’ll earn enough money so that me and family can live in comfort and still we can afford to spend fun quality time with each other.</p>
<p>Alright, I’m changing my question, just to make it more specific. Let’s say that after a job interview, an employer contacts you and says that he has two jobs to offer you. You would start off with $55,000 dollars in both jobs. The first job would allow no room for growth in your salary, however your working hours would be adjustable, as long as they totaled to 35-40 hours by the end of the week. The second job would allow great growth in your career; in 18 years you could make $500,000, however you would have to work 12-16 hours a day whenever your boss wanted you to. Which option would you choose?</p>
<p>My dad chose something similar to the second option, so he could retire earlier and then spend time with us and doing what he wanted.</p>
<p>Personally I would choose the second option, but I don’t want a family.</p>
<p>$500,000 then retire so I can be filthy rich AND spend time with my family </p>
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<p>What of they were all grown up by then?</p>
<p>500k.</p>
<p>I tend not to talk to my family already.</p>
<p>^ I disagree. I don’t get to see my dad that much as he’s always working, and is atually on a two week business trip to Asia at the moment, but it’s not that big a deal, it’s just the way it is. I’d like to see him more, but I wouldn’t call it heartbreaking.
I may be the only person who thinks like this though, I seem to have no sort of family bonds at all, especially to my older brother.</p>
<p>I’d rather see my family than have a high salary.
My dad has an excellent job but he is hardly ever around, and I miss him. Now that my parents are divorced, I hardly see him at all.</p>
<p>Eh, my dad works to the death for that $50k (less than that, which is even more depressing), but somehow finds a way to spend as much time as possible with us and as a family we try to spend a lot of time together.</p>
<p>So I guess i’d rather have that balance of a low-ish salary and family. Family is important.</p>
<p>I’d be okay with a low salary and not seeing my family. My dream job will have me living abroad for three years at a time, leaving only a few months home every once in a while.</p>
<p>Actually, I didn’t see much of my father until I was around 13 or so because he worked 3 jobs. And I didn’t live with my mother full time until I was 12.</p>
<p>You guys do realize working 5 years at $500,000 is roughly equal to 50 years of $50,000… right? Simple logic.</p>
<p>$500,000 hands down.</p>
<p>^omg… Dat math.</p>
<p>I wasn’t assuming that you would start at 500,000 dollars. That’s a no brainer. I reworded my question so it would be more specific.</p>