I'm unmarried. No kids. No debt. Six figure salary. Plenty in savings and retirement. Kind of a high maintenance girlfriend but she's not wild about spending my money. She might go off and spend $500 on a purse or coat or something but nothing too crazy.
When I turned 29 I paid off all of my student loans and other debt and landed this job that pays me so much I don't even bother to budget or anything. So I thought "this is it, I finally made it. Time to go on cruise control". But then I saw how some of my bosses lived, particularly this women I used to work under (she gave me my first big break into tech) who pivoted from a job at Adobe to one at Microsoft. Her home is basically an estate, it looks like Wayne Manor from the movies. She casually showed me her Fidelity retirement account summary one day and it is literally more than I could ever earn working at my current job. Millions of dollars.
So I got to thinking. Maybe I really haven't made it yet. But I mean, how could I? Get lucky? Save the CEO's life or something and have him promote me to VP? Am I overthinking things and should just be happy? Hell should I get married? Have kids?
I just don't know. It seems like nothing is ever enough. Also sorry if I sound like a well-off jag off, I came from extreme poverty. I worked numerous kitchen jobs through college, lived in my car some weeks. $40k a year to child me would have sounded like luxurious riches. So this, actually having money, is uncharted territory for me.
When I turned 29 I paid off all of my student loans and other debt and landed this job that pays me so much I don't even bother to budget or anything. So I thought "this is it, I finally made it. Time to go on cruise control". But then I saw how some of my bosses lived, particularly this women I used to work under (she gave me my first big break into tech) who pivoted from a job at Adobe to one at Microsoft. Her home is basically an estate, it looks like Wayne Manor from the movies. She casually showed me her Fidelity retirement account summary one day and it is literally more than I could ever earn working at my current job. Millions of dollars.
So I got to thinking. Maybe I really haven't made it yet. But I mean, how could I? Get lucky? Save the CEO's life or something and have him promote me to VP? Am I overthinking things and should just be happy? Hell should I get married? Have kids?
I just don't know. It seems like nothing is ever enough. Also sorry if I sound like a well-off jag off, I came from extreme poverty. I worked numerous kitchen jobs through college, lived in my car some weeks. $40k a year to child me would have sounded like luxurious riches. So this, actually having money, is uncharted territory for me.