I agree. The problem I'm having is juggling the three elements of day job, family service, and plan B. Day job eats up over 12 hours of my day (include prep + commute). Then the family service thing goes on for at least 4 hours, usually more with the clean up miscellaneous house things. The majority of the days, I find my important duties finally ends around 11pm, on most weekdays. Exceptions are like yesterday where late night day job phone conferences has me up past midnight. Weekends, you can replace the time with the day job with family service. I think this is where as the kids grow older and more independent, I can reap back some time for plan B.

I just can't help but wonder how different my life would have been if I pursued doing my own thing more aggressively 10 years ago. Ten years ago was four years before the wife and I wanted to have kids, the wife was working making good income, a time where I could have gone balls out. m'eh, enough dwelling on the pasts what-ifs.

Day job and family duties calls! I'm off to the (rat) races!