I’ve absolutely put my process engineer skills to work with my lifestyle. I work just 15 hours a week and spend entirely little time cleaning the flat thanks to my robot helpers. I just cook supper a few times a week and freeze the leftovers and rotate what I eat each week so it doesn’t get monotonous. I bet I spend about five hours a week cooking, shopping, and cleaning the flat, which is fantastic because that means only 20 hours a week are spent doing things that are considered “work” to me. My heating and air conditioning tech job is absolutely light work because I no longer lift heavy heat pumps or air con systems and just do paperwork and inventory for the local business. The rest of my time is spent doing what I love, which is music and volleyball, and it is the type of lifestyle I’ve been longing for for a long time. My climate control system is running this afternoon for four hours while I do my work and chill with the cats. So I basically work three hours a morning on average, which means I have about 12 hours free to do as I please, which seems to be a fantastic balance for me. My heating and air conditioning business associate back in the States told me that his heating and air conditioning company keeps him absolutely scheduled and he only has an hour and a half of free time each morning. He spends a lot of time selling boilers at his local contracting business and when he gets home he is pretty much spent.