I would say more framers fall into that category than otherwise. Many want to farm till they die and are happy doing that. And that is great, doing what a person loves.

Had a person ask me mid career I would have said I would never quit. But one thing my wife and I insisted on was to have at least a weeks "vacation" each year. There was only one year in the 80's that we just could not justify spending the money so we stayed home. Man that was the longest year of our lives (between cash flow projections of the 80's and not getting away from it for a while). The next year I quit drinking Pepsi and we did some other things to save money so we would be sure we could "get away". Farming in the 80's was stressful enough without having to skip vacation. Have not missed getting away at least once a year since. We have developed things we enjoy off farm so backing out of farming, which we have been doing for 11 years now, has been pretty easy for us.

So we have always enjoyed and looked forward to our "time away from the farm". In fact some of our best thinking, planning and "eureka" moments came while we were relaxing. Not especially trying to think about the farm, but stuff just popping up when we had time to step back and look at things from the outside.

Who knows, maybe I will get bored and do like Colonel Sanders and start a new business when I am 75. And that would be fine if that is what I feel like at the time. But right now we have passions we are enjoying and will continue with those.

John