Originally Posted by MikeF16

I will probably gross something near what you're talking about (before you add my 401k, profit sharing, or military retirement) and I am working less now than I ever did in the military. No email, no taskers, no unit fund raisers, no deployments, no exercises, no inspections, no 100% bs mandatory annual training, no looking like I was just thrown in the pool after I fly, and no mandatory fun to name just a few. I am away from home more but in much smaller chunks; however, it is definitely less actual work. If I have no life now I'm afraid what you'd call the last 20 years I spent walking the planet. I think some people don't know what real work is.