High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours

Controversial opinion:

Men are concluding that women don’t care about money as much as they used to, and having an amazing career to snag a great woman is no longer the best (or even a good) strategy. In some ways, being a dedicated corporate employee makes you unattractive as a person.

I know a lot of guys in their late 20s that think this. And I know a lot of broke bar tenders dating great women.

Unless you are making huge money (> 600k), corporate careers steal from your life and the development of your personality

Incentive structures in society have changed, we are witnessing it in real time

Many men discovered over the course of the pandemic how much they actually loved spending time with their family and how unrewarding office life is.

Unfortunately the powers that be have decided that this realization is incompatible with how the economy is set up to work, commuting office space work lunches and dinners etc. and so back to the office we will be forced to go.

I was an absolute workaholic at my previous gig. Now I'm making the same money adjusted to inflation + ~10%, which puts me in the 96th percentile or so. However I'm working way less these days, something like 10 hours less a week. My employer cannot really pressure engineers into working overtime, since the engineer / employee ratio is very low, and every resignation has been a big blow to our roadmap.

There are dozens of us, friend.

I think 4 weeks including company holidays is doable.

When I was 27 my I had 5 weeks PTO and I have never had that much since. All these unlimited PTO places barely get you 3 in most cases. And unlimited is just a scam to not have to pay out when you leave.