I guess my goal is a version of this: all my textbooks are sitting on a shelf outside my bedroom, and I want to get back into them until I feel I've mastered th

I guess my goal is a version of this: all my textbooks are sitting on a shelf outside my bedroom, and I want to get back into them until I feel I've mastered them. I wasted university with that idiotic determination of "look how little work I can get by with", which of course is also "look how little I can know while still surviving," an idiotic goal if ever there were one. My job will probably be 60 hours/wk for the next year, then up in the 65-80/wk range for the following three years, but after that, I'll be back down to 40 or even fewer. And I'm going to take advantage of all that free time a lot better on the second go. Who knows where I'll go from there. Realistically, my wife and I could get along perfectly well on her working part time, and in medicine that's not too hard an arrangement to get. Neither of us particularly trust the economy on its current (last 70 years) trajectory, so we'll probably aim to put ourselves in a partial homesteading setup closer to home in the next ten or so years. Wow, I don't know where that went. TL;DR -- I want to read my textbooks and start gardening.