"- The point at which you have enough money to give meaningful amounts away
- The point at which you can quit your day job if you like
- The point at which you always fly business class when you fly
- The point at which you can fly on private jets as a matter of course"

A number of years ago, about the time the kids were in middle school, the number of candles on my birthday cake had grown to the point of causing comments about smoke alarms, global warming, melted frosting and the like

So I requested that henceforth my candles would be in binary: yellow for '1', blue for '0' : 49 years therefore became 110001 (32 + 16 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1)

Last year for the first time I needed room for an additional candle. And, sometime between achieving my sixth and seventh candle I also moved up one of Jim's criteria.

With that said -- being happily retired and all -- I think my chance of moving up one more notch to Jim's final criteria is about the same as adding an eighth candle to my cake at age 128

--sutton
Whose 4 sons, sporting 6 science degrees and an in-progress PhD between them still argue with each other every year about the correct sequence of candles.
Of course, they would argue about what direction the sun comes up, so there's that