My husband just got a promotion!!

My husband just got a promotion!!

Crazy thing? The $$$+ isn't the part that'll change our life.

It's the hours.

He's going to finish work at 3pm.

Every. Single. Day.

AND get weekends completely off.

Before this?

He had 12-hour rotating shifts.

Days to nights to days.

He couldn't get into a routine.

Was exhausted ALL the time.

It was so bad he was ready to quit!

Now?

We can go on afternoon ski runs.

Enjoy long summer evenings together.

I won't have to go to bed alone anymore!!

(Downside? I'll probably never finish Emily in Paris... Oh well...)

You know what this made me realize?

Everything I've read about 'retention' strategy obsesses over COMPENSATION.

But the thing that almost lost him WASN'T MONEY!

It was missing life while working.

The raise that matters most can't be deposited.