terryvanman wrote:
When I worked I had workmates that were fiends and drinking/pub/meals out mates.
I don't want to get into your personal life, but maybe you might want to hang out with some other folks.
Bald Wasp wrote:
My greatest frustration with many institutions is how rigid they can be with regard to the traditional 40 hr work week.
I see that as a common problem with so many jobs...do what you do 40 hours a week or retire. Sometimes it's just too demanding, sometimes it's just more time than you want to invest.
I feel fortunate in a way, I work for myself (a mixed bag), work in health care in a field that I love despite the hassles of regulation and administration, and it's really so much of my life I have a hard time thinking of walking away from it completely. At 62 11/12 I'm "not at the end of the road, but I can see it from here" as they say. My kid has 3 years of HS (ask me about being an older parent), and my wife has some years to go with work, so there's incentive to keep at it at least 3 more years. I have these increasingly frequent pipe dreams of taking afternoons off, later starts, whole days off, 3 day weeks...you name it. What I can also do is rent space from a colleague to eliminate most of the administrative hassles and expenses. Who knows, maybe at 75 I'm still working 2 days a week.... In the meantime, I'm less worried about taking time off for vacations, etc. If only my wife could wrangle more time off.....
The ultimate pipe dream is having a small practice from a house in Mexico..... low overhead, minimal regulation. Hell, even if they pay me with chickens, it might be fun.
Economically I could swing it any time, but there's always that little fear of things not going as expected- health expenses, change in economy, whatever. I'm used to producing income to live on vs. draining savings, which I expect will be a bit of an uncomfortable transition.