Your Money or Your Life
The core question in this book is more uncomfortable than most personal finance writing admits. Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez start with something that sounds simple: how much is your time actually worth? Not your hourly rate. Your real rate, after you subtract the commute, the recovery time, the clothes and equipment the job requires, and the things you buy just to make the job tolerable. Once you account for all of that, most people’s real hourly rate is lower than they thought. Sometimes lower enough to sting a bit. ...