Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time
If you manager offered you a choice between a 20% raise or never having to work a particular day of the week again (your choice which day), what would you choose?
Early in my career, the raise and put it entirely towards retirement savings. Later in my career, the free time.
I go with the shorter workweek, no question about it.
I prefer 100% more time and 100% more money.
This is an unrealistic question, it deserves an unrealistic answer.
20% raise. I happen to enjoy the work I do - Ive taken extended time off (6month+) to do personal stuff and didn't really touch anything tech related, and felt myself getting dumber as I was missing out on tech. Being engaged in it every day is like a workout for my brain.
I already made that choice. Have had 3-day weekends for more than 4 years now.
Neither. I want to move to a society that solved the money/time thing on a lower level.
20% raise, I need the money.
I would take more money and then not need to have a manager (annoying, usually useless people) anymore.
As a software developer I can always grant myself 20% more time. I will find a way to either automate areas of my responsibilities or reconfigure them as to be delegated to others in a more efficient configuration. This sort of social problem solving is always of greater interest to me than more money. I suspect that is why they promoted me to management and made me lead of operations for this big project.