haven't earned a (constant) paycheck in over a decade, still "work" 8~10 hours a day. This weekend it was felling and clearing several trees and brush to make room for a bigger garden. Work will stop when you're 1% or dead. But you can get to a place in life where you're not giving your time away to Other people. Live as cheaply as possible (helps to get the kids out of the damn house and off "payroll"), don't pay someone else to do Anything ~ learn to do for yourself and even with tool purchase/rental it'll be cheaper (plus you gain a new skill). Sometimes you get to use those skills to collect money from others... I'm the family mechanic, which was born out of me being too poor to pay a mechanic to keep my POS running (but knowing the library had the info needed and investing in some of the cheapest, shittiest tools available) back about 30 years ago. Or you get more of something than you can use... I made about $500 last year from selling honey and wax. Oh, but don't do bees... way expensive to get into and takes up a Ton of time.