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To be clear, you are saying you can now easily live off of the return you get every year, without touching your nest egg? If that stopped, do you have enough time left? (the two biggest mistakes I have seen, I will assume you thought it through, with REAL inflation numbers, based on Energy and Food prices as true Inflation).
Then... I would approach your current employer, and negotiate the work schedule/vacation that you want.
I would gladly cut an employees salary in 1/2, and cut them down to 6 months, etc. To keep their knowledge base around. Heck, depending on the company size, etc, I would work with you to get you what you want, while keeping your expertise at our fingertips. Below 1 day/week, I am not sure it has that value. And it could be incremental over the next 5 years or so.
But, I have seen MANY employers who cannot fathom a special deal. All employees are EQUAL and must be treated as such, no favors. I watched people QUIT because they could not attend a NEEDED WEEKLY AA course because it happened in the AM, where this person felt comfortable, and the company played hard ball... (use vacation first (scheduled), then sick time, then PTO, etc. etc.)
so, it depends. It never hurts to ask when you are in the position that their firing you ONLY helps you decide. LOL
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I announced my retirement to my employer, giving them up to 90 days to replace me. I had been with them for over 12 years. I work for a major property title company and my job was/is data remediation. The work is not time sensitive.They couldn't find anyone with my skill set with similar knowledge. I had already been working remotely from home for the previous two years, three days a week and two in the office, mostly meetings. They finally offered me my same position, at the same rate of pay, to work remotely five days a week.
I've been "retired" 6 years now. The wife and I have travelled to major cities on every continent. We will are planning to revisit some cities. Our most recent trip was one month in exploring Peru, with Machu Pichu as the prime objective.
So, go for it. Life is too short to be saddled to a computer 40-60 hours per week. Should you be as fortunate as me, all the better. I haven't had any issues violating "working" in any country. I carry two notebook computers, one for backup, file a status report weekly, my paycheck is automatically deposited into my checking account, and I pay all my bills online. And, wifi connection is available everywhere.
Good Luck to you.
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First Impression: there's a plan!
My employer's weird about working remotely (and even that depends upon who you talk to). They accept it from a contractor and don't like it from their own employees. Let's just say, as time has gone by, the new pennies running the place don't have the shine the old ones did.
One thing, though, is that although there's an IT group, I'm the only one that hasn't hitched his wagon to a single mega-project. This means I make all the other things. That typically requires face-to-face time.
Your situation, however, solves a lot of problems. Keeping mentally stimulated, can go where you want when I want. It's an option I may push for - what can they do? Say no?
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... and got 120,000 hits.
Not so surprising, but one of my own tips here is the top of the list. 
First time that's happened to me!
(And yes, it was what I was looking for.  )
You ever been top google hit? Is it common, or rare?
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OriginalGriff wrote: You ever been top google hit? Is it common, or rare?
Only if i was googling my full name
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devenv.exe wrote: my full name
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe?
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Do you mean for something that I would actually google, or theoretically?
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Something you have actually Googled?
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and what does bing think about that?
might be worth a look before nads decides to shut that down too.
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Lopatir wrote: before nads decides to shut that down too
You mean they haven't closed it yet? 
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Competition is a good thing. That is why I use both Google and Bing.
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Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Lopatir wrote: might be worth a look before nads decides to shut that down too.
Wait what? Where I come from the word "nads" is a euphemism for testicles. 
Jeremy Falcon
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yup, nads are testacles (also a brand of hair removal cream in Aus, [which, yikes! some may also use the latter on the former]).
Either way I reckon that name fits him rather well.
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If I Google my name then yes, but
1. I am a company owner in Wales
2. I am a musican - But personally I think even cats would walk away if I started to sing.
3. I live in Manchester and America.
4. I have a very active twitter account which shows I own a CRM Software company.
but none of the above are true.
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Simon_Whale wrote: But personally I think even cats would walk away if I started to sing.
Simon_Whale wrote: but none of the above are true.
Must...resist...theurgetoapplylogic!
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If I google myself, I don;t come up till about eighth place: apparently I'm a musician (who can't carry a tune in a bucket), and an Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics researcher.
Oh, and according to the images google picked up, I'm also black, white and oriental all at the same time. Mother would be so impressed!
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Now that is an interesting twist.
One image of mine is a cartoon of a Viking in an iron clad bikini and a donkey riding school the others are too boring to report.
One thing to note in one image it has a ginger beard!
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Isn't that a self fulfilling prophecy when you look for something you have written about yourself? Besides that, who knows how much information Google has already has gathered about you to make your own stuff the most probably fitting search result.
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Nah, this was technical - to do with passing info to PrintDocuments.
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If/when I google "balboos" my site (one page) "CONTEMPLATONS . . . " is top of this list.
In case you try this, don't forget to click through and linger for a while. Might as well keep it there.
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I went there, I couldn't find the "Upvote" button, I went away again. 
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I had it once for one of my articles (not top but 5th or so as far as I remember) while I did some research to update that article (so it was not what I was looking for; or better: It did not contained what I was looking for).
Just tried it with the article title (which contains only three very general terms):
710,000 hits, position 4, positions 1 to 3 from the MSDN. Wow 
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 It's a good feeling, isn't it? I'm really not sure why it feels good though.
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