Today, I was offered $8000/year in exchange for what I consider a significant chunk of my freedom. Right now, I work full time for an IT company. About a year ago, I took a 10% pay cut to take 4 hours per week to work on my side business. These 4 hours per week have proven very lucrative for me, as it's enabled me to take on more projects and work to build a clientele and income streams separate from my employer.
My eventual goal, of course, is to work for myself doing consulting and building passive income streams. Being able to take these 4 hours each week to focus on building something for me and my family is worth more to me than the money that is created by it. It provides much more fulfillment to me than my full time job.
The offer of $8000 in exchange for giving this time back to the company was meant to be generous, but would in fact have a net negative effect on my happiness, ability to help the most people and my annual income. The biggest area that would have diminished would have been my freedom.
Tell me, who would voluntarily climb back into a cell after experiencing freedom?
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