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[quote=Anonymous]OP here again--I see some of the comments to find a dream job, but I have no clue what kind of job would be interesting, provide full benefits, not require too much time or energy, and be something I could be hired to do.  My dream job is actually being a head of school or opening a school, but that's a really hard job, a terrible investment, and no school would hire me without any credentials.  So, that's unlikely. Beyond that, most jobs seem pretty similar and it would be silly to give up a job I currently like and am successful in to move to something I've never done on the chance it might be more, I don't know, fulfilling?  Most jobs with benefits require full-time hours and I don't work more than ~45 hours a week now so it's not like I would get big chunks of time back as long as I"m employed.

I've done a fair bit of volunteering, and I'm not sure that's for me long-term as a way to fill large chunks of time.  I'd rather give money, monthly in my budget for now, and a few large bequests when I'm dead.  I'm not sure I know what people mean when they say to volunteer as a middle-aged person.  I've done several stints on boards, acted as treasurer for my kid's school, currently manage the assets for an elderly relative, and sign up for roles here and there at school and extra-curriculars.  What kind of volunteering have you found interesting and fulfilling?  In any case, it doesn't solve the benefits issue.  I am not hopeful we will solve the public health insurance issue given our insistence as a country on paying exorbitant sums on our military industrial complex.

I'm a thoughtful person, I care about the Earth (one kid decision), and I like being helpful.  I don't think frequent pleasure travel is a responsible environmental decision and my kid is in high school so that's really not an option anyway.  I think I can make the most impact my helping my staff grow professionally and be successful themselves.  Sometimes I wish my job was, I dunno, easier?  More fun?  Less annoying?  But that's silly--no jobs are that unless you are supremely lucky.

I think maybe the best thing I could do is not to look at our accounts for a year.  I wish I could do that, but then my 30 years of Quicken would go to he**, LOL.  I feel pretty committed to my current plan, which is to keep on truckin'.[/quote]

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