Arrowhead
Arrowhead,
Do a search onmy posts - my situation is similar to yours but I'm just turned 34. I took severance from my dull desk job, have a wife who is 40 and really wants to get pregnant now and I've decided to go for it having spent the past 2 years deliberating.
Like you I could have stayed where I was and had it cushy but boring - that didn't seem to be a good way to live!
Hope this helps,
Desk-pilot