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Right now, we are talking to Catherine.

Catherine is on the line from the Pacific Northwest. Hello, Catherine.

What's going on? How can we help you out? Hi, I was, thanks for having me. I'm calling in to

see if I could perhaps either just live a little bit more, you know, go on a vacation here or there, or perhaps kind of scale back at work, maybe do my next endeavor.

So I just wanted to check in and see an opinion.

I thought you were going to say you wanted to live longer.

And I was going to say, that's not the kind of show we talk about here.

Right. Okay.

Well, let's do some nuts and bolts stuff.

Catherine, how old are you?

I'm 46.

Okay.

And are you in some horrible high-stress job?

It said mentally taxing.

Yeah. Okay. When you talk about scaling back, what does that mean to you? Like, right now, how much are you earning? Oh, probably about 186 or so. Okay. 186. And are you single, partnered, married?

Partnered, to be married later this year.

Okay. Are we combining your partner's income with us here?

I think for the retirement picture, yes. Yeah, we're slowly kind of melding more as the years go by.

Okay. What does your partner earn? I think about 145. Okay. Is your partner going to make a change to their life in terms of scaling back? Or is that 145 going to be consistent? No, consistent. He really likes his job. So he's in it for at least the next five years when his pension kicks in, and probably longer,

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