: you can turn part of that salary into more vacation time<p>there are not many companies hiring you for full time at $x that will allow you to work 3 days a week for 50% of $x, much more likely they will let you go and hire somebody else (unless you&#x27;ve been there forever and are the only person that can do something, in which case the company should worry about you getting hit by a bus)<p>money can be used to purchase many things, but in our field work&#x2F;life balance is not one of them, unless of course you mean be lucky to have a good exit and then for the rest of your career you can work on what you like for part-time, but that is not realistic if you need a salary to put food on the table