<prompt> Human: Hi Personal Finance obvious Alt warning.I need some advice - TL:DR - sell my business young and run, or keep going?I am in my early 30s and a Veterinarian in the UK. I am a 50 owner and business partner in a Vet Clinic for about 6 years. My business partner is 60 and close to retirement.Business is good. Year on year growth of 20 for multiple years. We now make about 150-200k profit a year and this is climbing rapidly after recent expansioninvestment is paying off.My partner is old. Hes near retirement age. Weve been discussing me buying out his half of the business and continuing on my own, with him winding down slowly. I can do this and it would be almost 100 financed through loans to the tune of circa 400-600k for me to buy him out. Bank is happy to provide this at a reasonable rate. If I did this, I could pay these loans in 10 years and own 100 of the business and be debt and personal mortgage free, while still taking home a very comfortable personal income. Probably by the time im 40.Or, weve been offered to sell out to a corporate. 2.4million I get 50 means I could pay off my personal mortgage and be 100 debt free with 1million in the bank. taxes not relevant in this case for various reasons. This avoids any risk of the business declining in the next 10 years or so and it lessens the hard work of single-handedly running a rapidly growing business - which, make no mistake, is hard.What would I do if i sold? Im still a qualified vet with management experience, jobs throw themselves at me - I dont want to continue a daily grind but im easily employable if it comes to it. I love property renovation so I could start a property empire since cost of living in my part of the UK is cheap.I have a reasonable pension pot for my age circa 110k which means im not struggling for finances elsewhere. This money won be digging me out of a hole.On the one hand, ive got an easy pot of money which is a very decent sum but not lifetime of luxury type money. On the other hand, potentially a LOT more but it takes ongoing work and some small element of risk if the business struggles.Thoughts? Yeah I know its the opposite of a rock and a hard place. A soft cushion or a bacon sandwich?EDIT: to clarify, my original plan was to buy out my partner and slowly remove myself from the running of the business to only oversightmanagerial, giving me a great income with not much grind and look to corporate sellout in about 10 years or so for retirement money like 3million. Sure I could make more money burning 60 hour weeks but im looking for that balance. I really dont like grind. I dont want to be someone elses employee - its just noted that it would be easy for me to get another job if necessarythings go tits up. The high corporate valuation has thrown a spanner in this as I was anticipating the balance to be waaay in favour of working my business and making money ongoing.  <response>: Sell. Find work doing exactly what you want no grind on your own terms. Enjoy life, you only get one. 