S’s boss left for another position recently, and they’re examining what qualities/skills they want in his replacement. A person closely involved with the hiring process was pushing S to take? try for? the job, and he was discouraging the idea to her. There’s an area in which he doesn’t have credentials that would make some colleagues oppose the promotion, but in addition, it’s a high level job that would demand almost all of his time, and that wouldn’t make us happy.

We were discussing this at dinner, and unprompted, E said that it was more important to have time together than more money.

Yay.