Hi all,
My wife just gave birth to our son. He is our second and last child (daughter 3.5 years old).
I'm a physician, 38 and wife is SAHM 39.
I'm on 3 weeks leave at the moment and have had some thoughts which have taken me a little bit by surprise. Just wondering if others had this and if it is likely to be a temporary mindset change or permanent.
Basically, I want to work a lot less. At the moment I'm probably working around 150% of full time equivalent once you take extra weekends, lists etc into account.
However, I feel we are pretty close to FI, if not there already. My desire to do any extras had basically plummeted to zero, even though they pay very well.
I want to have more weekends to spend with my family, and would like to get home earlier more days rather than doing additional activity.
I would say my work life balance is okay even when working 150% capacity as I am a very organised, efficient worker but I think less work, more play is the way I see things going forward.
I am also concerned that a large spike in Net Worth over the last few years due to a rising stock market has made me soft and a stock market crash may make me want to slog away again to make more money, but I suppose I could dial things back up again if this was to occur.
Not sure I'm explaining my thoughts very well, hoping some people will know what I'm talking about!