Career, exhaustion, layoffs and ambition.
Dropped about 22% of my salary to go to a smaller company with real boundaries. Things I got back: dinner with my kids most nights, the gym four times a week, and the ability to read a book without checking my phone every eight minutes. Things I lost: a title nobody outside my industry understood, and a car payment I did not need. I am not saying everyone can do this. I am saying I could have done it three years earlier.