To me? No.
To you? That's for you to answer...
Can you elaborate at all about your financial and work/lifestyle goals? It's not right/wrong to want more or less in terms of luxuries, but you have to be willing to make that trade-off depending on what you desire.
Thanks for your response. I certainly enjoy the overall freedom I get with my job but the issue is obviously income. I feel like if I made around 60K doing this I would be much more satisfied with it. My wife and I want to be full time real estate investors eventually but this is a job that I could potentially still keep while making more money from real estate than I do with this. That would be my ultimate goal I'd say is to have the freedom to not need to work for anyone. I did make over 80K in the past which is a hard pill to swallow to realize a younger me did twice as well as I am currently. I lately have been reaching out to businessmen I know that run their own companies in search of a mentor that can help me with getting my own business going.
My wife and I do enjoy traveling and thanks to use travel hacking skills we vacation pretty cheaply. One of the perks with my job is that I can order very expensive product with a credit card and get fully reimbursed. I know I have had purchases over $8000 before and pretty easily can have a few thousand a month in spending from purchases.
I've often that in that scenario let's say I made 60K a year but had more $ coming in from real estate than I do with my salary that I could probably negotiate a reduction back to 40K but get more benefits. I'm pretty sure I could get Fridays/Mondays off as well as not being limited to just working from home. I've already worked plenty on vacation before, I don't need anything more than a laptop, internet connection, and iPhone. In most cases I can get by with just my phone even.
Where does your wife work? Does she work on the island too? If not you could relocate closer to her job and see if there are more job opportunities? Hard to give more advice without more info.
I should have been more specific, I am sorry I did not mean for the island line to be taken literal lol. I live in San Antonio so far from an island, and my wife and I recently bought another house to move closer to her teaching job. We turned my first house into a rental property and that's got us interested in real estate. Very sorry for not being more clear on that I just meant figuratively, the fact that I do not get much interaction from our company. In fact I've argued for awhile that my father and I run things ourselves down here to the point that any intervention or things we have to do via the company guidelines are just hinderances to how we do business. Originally my job was just to be inside sales but it has now transitioned to that as well as accounting, and purchasing. I rather enjoy the purchasing aspect but the accounting I certainly don't. Mainly because our accounts are so different in how they operate vs our main office that it causes some conflict with our office accounting. I'm really quite good in most cases of finding what our customers need in a hurry, often times I'll get emails with little notice requiring parts to be delivered the next day. We do not stock inventory here locally since we have no office/warehouse here. Because of this I have to go out and find it quickly and that's why they continue to buy from us. Also not having a local presence has certainly impacted our ability to add to our book of business. Customers want us to have local stock instead of having to Next Day Air product into them which I certainly understand.
I appreciate the feedback so far and welcome more of it, i'm willing to answer whatever questions necessary.