I've also retired early after saving and keeping a simple lifestyle. I don't understand why more people in tech don't do it. My mental and physical health are both better than the last time I was working.
Sometimes I'm tempted to get another job on the basis that it would be all disposable income. But then I think, what could I buy that would be more valuable than the 40 hours a week I'd be giving up? Maybe I'm just lucky that I have no interest in fancy things.
iwontberude•2mo ago
After buying so many things it gets boring and you figure out the few tricks you need to be satisfied. I think most people figure it out eventually.
brianwawok•2mo ago
Do you have a family and children? Not impossible but it’s much more complicated when others are involved.
add-sub-mul-div•2mo ago
Just one kid, you're right, not feeling an imperative to have a sprawling family goes a long way to making it possible.
__turbobrew__•2mo ago
Lifestyle creep and tech hubs have expensive real estate. I am super lucky in that I have a FAANG job in LCOL area and will most likely be FIRE by I am 40 with a fully paid off single detached home, but you cannot do that in the bay area where almost all your income will go to paying your mortgage.
I also know a co-worker who lives in a LCOL area and just bought a Porsche 911 GT3…
venturecruelty•2mo ago
>I don't understand why more people in tech don't do it.
Let me ask my landlord for you.
add-sub-mul-div•2mo ago
Yes I had a landlord for 20+ years but was able to get out from under that without having a FAANG job or salary.
venturecruelty•2mo ago
Congratulations! I hope you can reflect on why that might not be possible for everyone struggling to make ends meet.
jleyank•2mo ago
I would imagine the financial numbers don't look so rosy if children are present (assuming the person's in the US). Uni and post-uni tuition and fees could eat a fair bit of 1.5M.
venturecruelty•2mo ago
Good for her, I hope she's happy. I also hope that everyone else can still afford groceries and rent through the holiday season. May we build a better world where nobody has to struggle, because we all can't work for Google. Someone still has to clean the toilets.
add-sub-mul-div•2mo ago
Sometimes I'm tempted to get another job on the basis that it would be all disposable income. But then I think, what could I buy that would be more valuable than the 40 hours a week I'd be giving up? Maybe I'm just lucky that I have no interest in fancy things.
iwontberude•2mo ago
brianwawok•2mo ago
add-sub-mul-div•2mo ago
__turbobrew__•2mo ago
I also know a co-worker who lives in a LCOL area and just bought a Porsche 911 GT3…
venturecruelty•2mo ago
Let me ask my landlord for you.
add-sub-mul-div•2mo ago
venturecruelty•2mo ago