I Wanna Retire!!

garland
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:02:42 +0000

Interestingly, VH, my H changed careers in the last couple years because he was too stressed by what he was doing. He’s now making about a third of what he was four years ago.

He first went part-time (and cut income by 40%) during S’s first year of school. Then he quit entirely so he could do his student teaching, then sub, so for second year he made almost nothing. Now, during S’s third year, he is making first year teacher’s salary (stll more than I make.) So, we are getting through S’s four years on far less than we had originally planned on. Will we have a comfortable retirement? By our standards, we think so, but, our standards are pretty low!!!

For overall quality of life, there’s no doubt this was the right decision.