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Guaranteed human. My wife is upset. I turned down a promotion. It was too much work. I don't want to work all day, man. I want a vacation and sit by a beach. A few years ago, I was working 80 hours a week. That's too many hours. And working on weekends. Oh, my God. I hated it. It was horrible. I had no time to see my kids. They were usually asleep when I got back. And my spicy sleep life was non-existent. The only good thing was the pay. It was very generous. It was so bad. Oh my God. Man's not getting anything. Wow. None of it. By the way, this comes

from no 80 hour a week. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash OK

Storytime suburbidate. I quit eventually and quickly found another job in the same field,

but this was only a 48 hour a week, six days a week. The work schedule is much more tolerable.

And I can come home by seven every day and still have dinner with my family and see my week. The work schedule is much more tolerable and I can come home by seven every day and

still have dinner with my family and see my kids. The pay is nearly half of what I earned in my

previous job, but still quite manageable. Right now, I earn $5,800 per month. Pretty good. We used to live

in a five-bedroom house and we were only using three of the rooms with one unused guest room and one office

that was never used. We moved and downgraded into a much smaller house with three bedrooms and two

bathrooms. There's one room for each of my daughters and one bedroom for me and my wife. I handle all

the finances because my wife isn't good with money. We have much fewer luxuries than we did before,

but otherwise all our needs are being met. I am much fewer luxuries than we did before, but otherwise,

all our needs are being met. I am able to save half my pay, $2,700 per month. I have saved almost 10K for my eldest daughter and almost 5K for my younger daughter. I have 70K in my general savings account

and have other investments. So, man's doing pretty good. Man's doing great.

Every month I give my wife an allowance of $200 to spend on whatever she wants.

This does not include groceries and other household expenses as I do all the household

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