What's the best way to spend less time working and more time actually cooking?

[Mosca]

As a followup to Citizenoftheworld ...

I don't think I'm a workaholic, but my job does demand hours. I work until 8 most nights, and until 5 on Saturdays. I'm off Tuesdays and Saturdays, and a few times a year I take a Monday off so I get 3 days for the price of one. But then Mrs and I usually go away.

I think the answer lies with that lottery thing that's going on. I should probably liquidate my retirement fund and buy tickets with it.

[Skip]

When I was working I worked 5 1/2 - 6 Days per week. Until I retired I didn't realize how much time that really used up. Being retired for 4 years now does give me more time for cooking, gardening, and other fun stuff.

[Steve R.]

Get a job cooking? HouseHomey ?

[FireMan]

This is simple. Get a legal pad & list all the cons of working, when your list is complete, quit doin all of em & go cook. If that doesn’t work than go find something that will allow you to cook more or as Steve said, find work cooking.

[Fire Art]

Unfortunately I have to work in order to cook and I cook in order to work just one of the necessary evils in life

[jgreen]

I think retirement is the best answer, but not all of us are there yet. I took last week off and it sure reminds me how much time work takes up.

[Keiferr]

Retire and keep wife working. Impress her with dinner when she gets home once in a while (regularly).

[Spinaker]

Work from home. Anytime I do, I have something rolling on the pit.

[klflowers]

I feel you, Mosca. Today is my first day off in a couple of weeks, and I brought work home that I am currently ignoring. I just try and cook when I can.

[JGo37]

EXACTLY as Spinaker says - work from home. I do 50% of the time, and roll my hours around my cooks.

[Locotech]

40 yrs. of workin' in shops...now this is my shop when I'm not cookin.

[HouseHomey]

Steve R. No... No..... don't do it!

[Rod]

Wifi. That's my plan until I can retire. Still a long ways away from that. I figure with technology I might be able to plan cooks like using my new wifi controller for my pellet grill. Prep the meat the night before and have the step kid through it in the cooker or maybe during my lunch break I can run home and throw it on. Then I can monitor and control everything from my phone. Sounds plausible.

[ribeyeguy]

Not to hijack Mosca's thread but to those that are retired, how was the initial adjustment? Retirement is something I'm looking at in the next year or so and I don't honestly know how I'm going to handle it. I mean, if I take a week off now just to relax around the house, by Wednesday I'm itching to get back to work.

[JakeT]

I work minimum 50 hours a week and usually 60-75. I'm putting in the hours now so I can hopefully back off and work far fewer hours eventually. My father in-law gave me the advice to work towards the goal of being able to work on your business rather than work in the business.