So...here is a question that someone I know recently pinged me on. This person is smart, great experience, and very frugal. Currently, the salary she's making is around 80k, plus benefits (401k match, Health, Stock, ETC). The issue? The boss is a raving lunatic. Think "Devil Wears Prada" only no designer clothes. There isn't much hope for anyone further up to swoop in an realize the boss is nuts, so she's stuck. She was offered another job at a company that is just as close (she already rides her bike to work) but the salary is 30k less! She already knows the folks at company #2 and knows there's not a psychopath among them.
She has zero consumer debt, but still has a mortgage of around 80k that she has been paying 2k a month on thanks to the higher salary. The new job would mean less stress, but slow the payoff considerably.
Suggestions?
I am leaning toward the side of "life is too short to work for Hannibal Lector" but I figured this was a good audience to get feedback from.
Thanks in advance!