Right on man. 
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hereās to a happier & healthier you & yours.
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Congratulations on this! I suggest that before you start the new role, you write a list of the challenges that you felt with the previous role and the stress it was creating and store it somewhere. You should also write the quality of life improvements that you feel youāll get from the new role (albeit with less pay at least in the immediate). It will be a good way to compartmentalize and draw a notional line under that time and position, and start fresh with the new company. This also gives you something to look back on and provide perspective should you (or your wife) ever feel regret for the decision you made down the line.
If youāre not self-employed, many people find success with moving vertically every 2-3 years from company to company. The tenure you have definitely isnāt a bad thing, but mobility is probably the single biggest asset that an employee has in leverage to thier own career potential. Marriage, property, cars and kids all somewhat diminish this mobility for most of us (as we get settled into our environment), but obviously at the quality of life trade off that we get to enjoy all those aspects of our lives. If the other job was preventing you enjoying those aspects of life, then itās a real trapping and the trade off wasnāt worth it, which you have taken the right step to avoid.
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