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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

MomHawk is an occupational therapist but has worked most of her career in the elementary school system. She works "teacher hours" (including days off), has a pension and health insurance, and makes about 90% of what she could working in a more traditional job in her field. She also doesn't have the afterhours stuff teachers do (grading papers, lesson plans, extracurricular stuff)

In fact, she's on "winter break" this week...

I think that's about as close as you can get to a "real job" and balancing the time off.

I also have a couple of friends that have made a good life consulting. They typically work 4 days a week with some travel on the 5th day of the gig is out of town, work from home some, and can pretty much schedule their time between gigs, often taken anywhere between 6 to 10 weeks off during the year. Not for me though, I don't like the travel or the "unknowns".

I considered doing the consulting thing but there are just so many out there already that you either have to go all in or accept the scraps from the big players.