‘There's more to life than money’: Overworked employee accepts job offer that is $70K lower than current salary, leading to a heated discussion about work-life balance

We all know the famous phrase - "Money can't buy happiness", and we all surely felt like this statement could not be far from the truth. Many things that make a person happy require money, so it's hard not to look at money as the source of one's happiness and contentment in life.

But there still is more to life than just making money. For example, if all you do is make money, and you have no free time to actually spend that money in ways that make you happy, then what is the point of all your hard work? The employee in this Reddit story has been asking himself that very same question, after overworking himself for years. Finally, he realized that he could not keep it going, and decided to look for a job that was less demanding. The offers he got through, were $70K lower than his current salary, which led to a heated family discussion about whether or not he should accept them.

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