[steveBK123]

That's a really great career path you were able to plot out, and great your manager at the start of the journey was supportive of it.

I think a lot of people don't realize everything is negotiable and you have to set out your own path.

That said, you have to make sure you get yourself into the right organization first to make these sort of flexible arrangements. I think 60-75% of firms I have worked at would not allow either % of week / % of year type of arrangements, and the most you might get is a permanent WFH for less pay deal.

The amount of stupid things I stayed stupid late for at my previous gig because my manager was a workaholic (as was his own manager). It's never a direct order and rarely even a request, but when your boss just stays in the office til 9pm it makes it hard to walk out the door at 5..6..7pm when theres a pending release/bugfix/etc late going out the door. Likewise when they call you on your cell at 6:45pm without warning to discuss non-urgent issues because they've finally gotten to that email in their inbox..