I'd always pick time off & happiness over less money, as long as less money was still livable.

3 weeks and 9- 9's is pretty nice. I work 4-9's and half day fridays currently. I'm very shortly going to try and negotiate more vacation as I will be getting a full time offeraround the end of the month. we get 13 days, I will try for 18/year. I've been spoiled by past jobs where I started @ 18 days & quickly went to 22 days/year. But that was low pay AND NO happiness.