I look at my life and I now can say that life is good but then I am closing in on that big 60 too
There has been times when I worked 7 days a week for months but that always passes. The last 24 yrs I have been self employed and to say that I love my job now is a understatment. I only come to this forum during work, I am in this office 4 days a week for a total of 28 hours, the actual work I do in a week varies from maybe 6 -12 hours per week.
Two yrs ago I quite my second job after doing it 25 yrs which made me work the rest of the days in the week, mostly weekends but alot of wed, thurs and fri nights, mind you it wasn't a bad job. I coached my 3 kids in ski racing, did a bunch of travel and really miss the kids but those damn knees don't seem to want to keep co-operating.
So did I live to work or work to live
am I retiring anytime soon, well at the moment my truck doesn't need to be re-tired and since my kids are finally out of the house, I can now get to know my wife again and its now our time so I expect that to cost some so, no, I expect at least 10 more yrs of production.
My motto for many yrs has been: every day I wake up is a good day and if business is really good that day, well its a really good day and if there is no business its still a good day.