Fact. I remember a decade ago I did the math. The math led to me being able to retire a decade or so before dying. And that those would be my worst years after my body was old and broken. That’s a raw fucking deal.
That was a non starter for me, and I began my journey to financial freedom.
as a kid who grew up on a farm, i never liked work. as i grew up, i realized that i would have to work all my life, so i had to learn to use my brain instead of my body, aaand that's why i'm a software engineer for 20+ years now.
The conclusion I came to was, I can't rely on an employer to pay me what I’m worth. So I’d have to make my own way - since the comment you replied to; I’ve since grown my account 4x and quit my weekend job.
I didn’t build in many raises because at that point, I saw very little correlation between my competence and my wage.
My trading/investments are my efforts to stop waiting for a boss to realize my greatness/give me a raise, and for myself to go out and earn it with my own labor.
Pro tip: quit. You can raise your salary significantly if you take your experience and apply to other jobs. It gives you much more bargaining power, especially if you search while employed.
Generally good advice, but right now I’m only working weekends in a field unrelated to my major. In a few years when my youngest starts school, I’ll either not need to work, or else just make do with an average local job. Just enough to get me over the hump for coast FIRE.
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u/Ethos_Logos May 16 '24
Fact. I remember a decade ago I did the math. The math led to me being able to retire a decade or so before dying. And that those would be my worst years after my body was old and broken. That’s a raw fucking deal.
That was a non starter for me, and I began my journey to financial freedom.