"I still remember eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch and spaghetti for dinner every day when I had an apartment in college. These were the only things I could afford. I still remember making $37,000/year as an entry level software developer. This was before taxes! In today's dollars, that would be about $72,000. So if I divide our Q3 appreciation by my old starting salary: $938,314/ $72,000 = 13"
"I still remember having severe anxiety for all of my professional life over losing my job. Money and the fear of not having it impacted me harshly. Although that same fear certainly made me work harder which led to more money. While a good career is important, I put it on a pedestal that it did not deserve. Living with a constant soundtrack of anxiety in the background isn't healthy. However life is good now."
Goal was to build an investment and cash portfolio of $1,000,000 for retirement plus $120,000 to pay off the house between January 1, 2013 and February 2017; the goal was achieved and employment ended. Investments increased from $5,904,562 to $6,842,903 in Q3 for a gain of $938,341, and including $400,000 in home equity net worth reached $7,242,903. Major stock contributors included large gains in Tesla and Google. Early career income and persistent job-loss anxiety informed financial decisions; the emphasis shifted to making money work through investing.
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