Early Retirement? Not quite.

When my wife and I finally made the decision for me to leave my job as a sales manager at a publishing company to become a stay-at-home dad, some of my work colleagues referred to it as "early retirement". In a way, so did I. After all, as a full time dad, I was now going to be making my own schedule, which included getting out of bed whenever I wanted, and watching Sportscenter as often as possible. What could be better? It didn't take long to discover that this was not going to be as easy as I was hoping.