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I'm a scientist who moved to Lithuania from the US. I am less stressed and my work-life balance is so much better that I ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stephen Knox Jones Jr., a 37-year-old scientist who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. It's been edited for length and clarity.Growing up in New Hampshire, I never questioned the strenuous 16 years it …