Yes, I'm considering it. - The company made a big push for RTO 4-5 days per week the past few months and I live about 2 hours drive away in rush hour. It's not

Yes, I'm considering it. - The company made a big push for RTO 4-5 days per week the past few months and I live about 2 hours drive away in rush hour. It's not required for me yet but will be if I ever shift clients. - It's becoming increasingly clear that they only promote/give good raises to employees willing to work an extra 10-20 hours per week on internal projects outside of their 40-45 hour/week client work, and I haven't been willing to do that, I have too much going on outside of work hours. - I'm getting a little burned out of my current client and project. I could have my company transition me to a new client and project (and thus probably require me to go to the office a lot more), or I could just find a new job for more money and be in the same boat that way. - My spouse desperately wants to quit her almost six figure job (like yesterday, she doesn't want to wait) and make a big push to become a full-time writer (for probably about 10% of the pay, after expenses, at least to start. hopefully will make almost as much money as she is now in 2-3 years), and we determined what all she's paying right now, and currently it would require almost a full extra paycheck (>$3k/month) for me to cover everything she's been paying for right now, between half the mortgage, student loans, medical prescriptions, credit card payments, etc. By both of us giving up on luxuries, going out to eat, subscriptions, and me cutting down on my own loan repayments and investments I can probably free up an extra $1200/month without too much problems, but getting the other half of it will require cuts I'm not sure I really want to make if at all possible (not maxing out 401k when I'm already way behind for my age, for example). So I should probably try to get paid an extra $30-40k+ more if possible, which almost certainly won't happen at my current job. Not saying it'll be super easy, as there's all the layoffs going right now. But I don't get paid anywhere close to SV wages right now, so I'm thinking I might still be able to work a bit cheaper than those laid off and yet still get that much of a bump, as long as I look outside of my region. I've been at my current job for 18 months so far, btw.