[JERRY2KONE]

Yea thats me alright. My wife calls it temporary retirement. I have worked every single day of my life since I was 14, starting off as a golf caddy. I quit school to persue full time caddy work in order to bring home the bacon for the family, and I have been doing just that ever since.

Anyway when we got married in 2004 I had to travel with her to Korea and could not work that year, because we were going to be shipped off to Belgium within ten months. Then I had to wait for a security clearnace and that took over a year to acquire, even though I had a top secret clearance in the military that did not matter to the State Department. I worked for two years there at USNATO, and then took custody of my 3 youngest kids, so the wife and I decided that I needed to stay home and become Mr. Mom for them for at least 6 to 12 months. Well I have done that for 6 months now and I am over it. We whipped the kids into shape and now I am ready to become a working man again. Within reason of course. I do not have to work, but we have plans for our retirement and I want to speed things up a bit finanacially.

So the good news is that I just received word from DC that I am going to become a Goverment contractor doing background investigations. I decide what cases I want to do and I control my own hours working out of our home. So that will be a first for me, and I am loving the idea of that. So all of my hard work is finally paying off big time. The kicker is that I can easily earn $100K+ a year just gathering data. So now I am set. I have almost everything that a man could ask for after putting up with a lot of Crapp for so many years. I am loving life right now, and my hobby room is not only my sanctuary of peace, but my wife is always looking for ways to help me improve the atmosphere and asking if I need anything to make things easier in the shop. She got me a 19" flat panel TV for Xmas just for the shop. So yes I do think I have the right idea. Finally. Thanks for saying so MK.

I would love to open up an R/C shop/track with a partner, but we still have 6 more years of international travel to get out of the way first. Trust me I am enjoying that as well. Owning a shop and running a race track would be a great way to spend my retirement years. I have some pretty good ideas that I have seen and learned along the way. Location, location, location is the key.