Working in tech and being a high earner helps a lot, but the whole time I used to work for Microsoft, I had 15% of each paycheck deducted to buy Microsoft shares at a slight employee discount.
Now that I no longer work for a company with an employee stock program, I have a percent of each paycheck going to my investment account where I buy some individual stocks and some VOO/VOOG. Index funds are safer, but I still want to try some stock picking. Also, I never day trade, or buy and sell the same stock hoping to predict micro price changes.
Automating investing and saving prevents me from wasting it on luxury purchases, and if I didn't automate it, there is no way I'd have the discipline to do this otherwise.
I own some BTC and XMR, I think they're pretty great if they can live up to their promises. XMR as national currency when
I have a friend who did a similar thing, no degree, started from tech support to taking contracts to help assemble supercomputers to tech support at Synopsys (FPGA company not the learning one). He moved on to working on diagnostic scripts as a self-taught coder, and he just recently broke 6 figures.
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I was first inline at a shop counter and two indigenous people behind me. The shop assistant looked at us and asked “ok who is first”. I said, “they are of course, they have been here for more than 60,000 years”. The two idigenous people smiled and thanked me as I stood aside.
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Peepee? Sucked
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Liabilities ~175k so only approximately 300k net sadly, and yes in minecraft
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$1M in assets, $600k in liabilities. Excluding home value is much more tame.
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how do you do this
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Update since the market has been good
Working in tech and being a high earner helps a lot, but the whole time I used to work for Microsoft, I had 15% of each paycheck deducted to buy Microsoft shares at a slight employee discount.
Now that I no longer work for a company with an employee stock program, I have a percent of each paycheck going to my investment account where I buy some individual stocks and some VOO/VOOG. Index funds are safer, but I still want to try some stock picking. Also, I never day trade, or buy and sell the same stock hoping to predict micro price changes.
Automating investing and saving prevents me from wasting it on luxury purchases, and if I didn't automate it, there is no way I'd have the discipline to do this otherwise.
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I doubt I could get into MANGA, I don't have a degree and I'm not a codecel, just a server janny
I hope I can make six figures in the future though, dream company would be Red Hat or the like.
I'll keep VOOmaxxing and autoinvesting though, that seems to be consistent advice from everyone.
We'll see if my BTC strat works too
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I own some BTC and XMR, I think they're pretty great if they can live up to their promises. XMR as national currency when
I have a friend who did a similar thing, no degree, started from tech support to taking contracts to help assemble supercomputers to tech support at Synopsys (FPGA company not the learning one). He moved on to working on diagnostic scripts as a self-taught coder, and he just recently broke 6 figures.
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Yeah I need to double down and get actual certs but the current job treats me well and there work to be done.
Seems to have a good path forward as well.
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Debt? 0
Net worth? Lol no chance I'm sharing that publicly. I consider myself upper middle class.
Would I ever kill a tenant? Why would I want to deal with tenants, they are a nightmare these days.
Message to any renters here; if you can't afford a house where you live, you need to move. Having a home is so freeing and allows you to greatly improve your quality of life. It's more attainable than you think.
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I was first inline at a shop counter and two indigenous people behind me. The shop assistant looked at us and asked “ok who is first”. I said, “they are of course, they have been here for more than 60,000 years”. The two idigenous people smiled and thanked me as I stood aside.
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Great job
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My net worth is high 8 figures. My debt is low 7 figures
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