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Originally posted by Moses
When my wife decided we needed a third baby when we were both 43 years old, I knew that retirement before age 65 was not likely. So I changed my "work life". I take countless three day weekends and I took 6 weeks off last year. I'll take more time off this year. I've created a working lifestyle that I can maintain indefinitely (I hope). When I'm working, it's generally 60 hours/week, but I'm still having a great time.
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Whoa... I thought my 2 y/o was kicking my butt at the ripe age of 39. My hats off to you. My next oldest is 12 so to say the level of sanity in our house has changed drastically would be an understatement.
This is the way I look at it. I will never stop working. I will be absent a lot more in 10 years and I am grooming an employee to run the place. My big test is this summer. I plan on heading up to our house in NC as much as possible and working via the internet a couple of hours a morning. Owning my own business helps lots. I am contributing heavily to a couple of IRA's over the next 15 years hoping to get enough saved to relax when I am in my mid 50's. I want to cut it back when I hit 50. But, I am trying to ween back a whole bunch by this summer. When the kids are in school I work, when they are out we are out of town.