When my grandfather got home from the army the first thing he did was point at his mother, bought her a house and said "you live there now." Pointed at his wife (my grandma) and said, you're done working. Then he crushed it for 20 years, raised two children (though they had seven and lost five unfortunately RIP Aunts and Uncles I'll never know) and then retired and fished and hunted for the next forty years. He is my hero.