Got offered $165k to spend 2 years in northern Canada and I can’t decide if it’s worth it?
I’m 29 and got approached about a job at a mining operation in northern Canada. It would be a 2 year contract, around $165k a year, housing covered, and they’d pay for a few flights home each year.
Right now I make about $82k, so obviously the money is a massive jump and that’s the main reason I’m even considering it. I’ve got some money from Ѕtake put aside already, but nothing that makes this kind of opportunity feel irrelevant. With housing covered and not much to spend on up there, I could probably make a lot of progress financially in a pretty short amount of time.
The part I’m stuck on is the actual lifestyle. Small remote town, brutal winters, not much to do, and I’d basically miss two years of normal life back home. Birthdays, weddings, random weekends with friends, parents getting older, all that stuff.
For anyone who has done something similar, did the money end up being worth the time away?