Prioritizingtime
Confused about dryer sheets
Hi all,
Found this forum a few days ago as I made the decision to more seriously think about semi retirement or full, starting soon ish.
I've read a good amount on here so far, so thank you all very much for who you are, what you share, and how much you care for each other.
I'm about to turn 45. Am 2 years older than my wife. No kids.
I'm not going to get into numbers like most here, my main goal is thinking things through and learning.
I'm here because I seem to value time a lot. I feel every year that goes by (often quickly), I'm increasingly less okay with not having the time to do more of the things I enjoy the most. Time with my wife, family, friends, pets. Experiencing things on this amazing earth.
Aside - Things/Items have very little meaning to me, in part because I realized about 5 years ago they don't matter whatsoever (to me) - largely influenced by the tragic passing of family members and a pet.
Sad, but life goes on.
I've been working full time since Uni, with one 3 month break in early 2015 (wife convinced us to take a sabbatical - best decision ever, which I almost didn't do)
Jokingly I've been saying for years that I feel about the right amount of time off work is 8 weeks a year. It gets a good chuckle at work or in general.
I get 4 weeks off and that seems reasonably generous in Canada. I've taken unpaid time for the last 7 years straight, generally 1-2 weeks. We've utilized all of that time very efficiently for travel and had incredible fun. A lot of it to spend time with family as well.
Still, I could use more...time.
In about a year we'll be mortgage free. That couples with my nest egg providing enough to live on at that time, I'm fairly certain anyway. So I could stop working if I wanted to, but I doubt I will.
Reasons are that my wife couldn't afford to retire, and wouldn't want to, and I have no retired friends.
So that leads me to today.
I think I'm searching for that 8 weeks off, or perhaps reducing to 80-90% of full time in a year. I don't have high hopes my employer will play ball though, in part because I only started there in January.
I started thinking a lot more lately about all this because the numbers I've been crunching for decades suddenly put me in a spot where this past Sunday night I sat on our patio with one of our cats and thought "hmmm I'm not sure I have to go to work tomorrow..."
Nice to meet you all!
Found this forum a few days ago as I made the decision to more seriously think about semi retirement or full, starting soon ish.
I've read a good amount on here so far, so thank you all very much for who you are, what you share, and how much you care for each other.
I'm about to turn 45. Am 2 years older than my wife. No kids.
I'm not going to get into numbers like most here, my main goal is thinking things through and learning.
I'm here because I seem to value time a lot. I feel every year that goes by (often quickly), I'm increasingly less okay with not having the time to do more of the things I enjoy the most. Time with my wife, family, friends, pets. Experiencing things on this amazing earth.
Aside - Things/Items have very little meaning to me, in part because I realized about 5 years ago they don't matter whatsoever (to me) - largely influenced by the tragic passing of family members and a pet.
Sad, but life goes on.
I've been working full time since Uni, with one 3 month break in early 2015 (wife convinced us to take a sabbatical - best decision ever, which I almost didn't do)
Jokingly I've been saying for years that I feel about the right amount of time off work is 8 weeks a year. It gets a good chuckle at work or in general.
I get 4 weeks off and that seems reasonably generous in Canada. I've taken unpaid time for the last 7 years straight, generally 1-2 weeks. We've utilized all of that time very efficiently for travel and had incredible fun. A lot of it to spend time with family as well.
Still, I could use more...time.
In about a year we'll be mortgage free. That couples with my nest egg providing enough to live on at that time, I'm fairly certain anyway. So I could stop working if I wanted to, but I doubt I will.
Reasons are that my wife couldn't afford to retire, and wouldn't want to, and I have no retired friends.
So that leads me to today.
I think I'm searching for that 8 weeks off, or perhaps reducing to 80-90% of full time in a year. I don't have high hopes my employer will play ball though, in part because I only started there in January.
I started thinking a lot more lately about all this because the numbers I've been crunching for decades suddenly put me in a spot where this past Sunday night I sat on our patio with one of our cats and thought "hmmm I'm not sure I have to go to work tomorrow..."
Nice to meet you all!
