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SweetTooth Mephisto posted:I just got the biggest raise I've ever gotten at this job and I've gone from 3rd shift to day shift. All I had to do was work hard for five years and make myself valuable enough survive multiple rounds of layoffs. Yay! You wouldn't happen to work at a forensic mental hospital in Florida would you?
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I just accepted a new job that came with (after negotiation) a signing bonus that will allow me to completely payoff my credit card and a 36% raise (with 10+% bonus) that will allow me to save more AND pay down my student loan more aggressively. Things are looking up! Going to really start poking around in this subforum more to get a hold on my finances.
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TNO posted:Feels good now that I can tell any more interview requests that I'm no longer searching. The best feeling.
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This isn't really an incremental improvement but a facebook memory popped up that really showed me how much things have changed. 2010 - graduated college with a B.S. in Psychology and started a lovely job in the mental health field in a state-run facility 2011 - laid off due to state budget cuts and got a slightly better, but still lovely job in a private/public mix mental health organization 2012 - pivoted into I/O Psychology and started graduate school 2014 - graduated and got a job in market research in D.C. and relocated to NYC later that year 2015 - realized I was hemorrhaging money because I didn't know how to budget and NYC is stupidly expensive and started using YNAB (my net worth is abysmal) 2016 - started working in the I/O field as a consultant for a firm with a large jump in pay/bonus and getting my finances in order 2017 - moved to much cheaper Chicago, have a handle on my finances, and have a positive net worth for the first time (according to YNAB) 2018 - promoted to senior consultant making more than 6x what I was making out of college, maxing my 401(k) with an additional 7% employer contributions, and on track to buy my first home around the summer of 2019 It can get better folks and the forums definitely helped me get on track with budgeting and really changing my mindset around my finances and retirement! Chaotic Flame fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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spwrozek posted:Nice job. Started a little lower (21K). It was a really terrible job AND in Florida. EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Congratulations on your financial glow up! Thanks! It feels good to be able to save and live rather than one or the other!
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Congrats! Building up a real savings feels good.
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Finally opened and fully funded a Roth IRA for 2019 and just realized I'm now saving more each year, between my own retirement accounts and employer contributions, than I was making annually at my first two jobs out of college. Feels good!
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Well, I've just accepted a job offer that's: 1) a dream job 2) a 1.6x salary increase and a 2.1x total comp increase 3) in an awesome (though more expensive) city closer to family 4) bursting with awesome ancillary benefits that are going to save me a lot of money while I'm there I'm moving back to NYC but I'll be saving more than three times as much as when I left it and earning more than double. Once I crunched the numbers, I had no qualms coming back. Here's to living AND saving in NYC! 
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spwrozek posted:Yeah man. How did the negotiations turn out? Did you take it out get more stuff? I did an update to one of the later posts. Probably should've just double posted so people got the notification. tl;dr no movement, still competitive and I accepted. Chaotic Flame posted:Asked for an 8% bump in total comp and we have a call set for later today to discuss. Thanks for all the input goons! Hopefully I'll have something to enter into the spreadsheet soon. Is that still a thing?
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SpelledBackwards posted:Did you mean +60% pay (0.6x increase, or 160% of baseline), or did you mean +160% pay (1.6x increase, or 260% of baseline)? Either one is drat impressive, but precision of terminology is very important here and people say the wrong thing all the time. Fair. The former, 60% increase in pay, 110% increase in total comp.
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Purple Prince posted:Well, it's been a tough couple years (I almost went bankrupt at the start of 2018), but I finally paid off all my regular loans and have 3 months of living expenses saved in an emergency fund. Congrats! That's a great glow up!
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Started a new job and moved to a new city two months ago but have been traveling and hadn't had time to sit down and really go over the new finances until this weekend. Even with my rent doubling in the new city, with the new salary alone (not counting the bonus and equity), I've still got the entirety of my old salary's budget to play with so I'm throwing all the extra into my last outstanding loan so I can be completely debt free by mid/late 2020!
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leper khan posted:
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Just paid off my student loan, am officially debt free, and also hit six digit net worth a few months back. The last year has been pretty poo poo but financially, it's been pretty great for me - started a new job in August that was a 100% increase in total comp, paid off my student loan, still comfortably saving for a mortgage, maxing out all my retirement accounts, etc. Here's hoping nothing goes off the rails!
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Retirement accounts hit six figures in 2020 and TC for the year was higher than my initial projections thanks to actual performance-based rewards (didn't realize by how much until my W2 came in)! Also, is there a general finance/retirement thread? My total comp has increased to the point that I no longer qualify for things like a normal Roth IRA (I believe I can still do a backdoor Roth?) and I'd largely only been using my employer 401(k)s (and rolling over each time I move jobs) and Roth IRA as my retirement vehicles. I'm not sure where to go at this point though. I think I need help understanding what's possible at my compensation now and whether I can still do things on my own or if I need to have a financial person to help navigate things (but wary of fees, useless investment vehicles, etc.). Chaotic Flame fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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spwrozek posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2892928&pagenumber=866#lastpost Thanks!
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I've recently hit a milestone that I truly never envisioned hitting when I entered the workforce post college making ~$23K in 2010. It's just crazy how things accelerate once they get going. Three years to go from worthless to six-figure net worth and then only a year to get to $250K. Though still have a ways to go if I want to be able to pull down the same money I'm making now in retirement. Chaotic Flame fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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Beach Bum posted:This'll probably be my last post in here for awhile, but for the best reason. 
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Omne posted:Aaaand just paid off my last student loan! Nice!
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H110Hawk posted:Oh hell yeah Such a good feeling!
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Lead By Example posted:I recently got my dream job doing convention event logistics for a board game company. Historically I've always bought and resold collectibles for a living, mostly gaming trading cards. (Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, stuff like that.) I used to own a brick and mortar game store before 2020, and I would always get booths at gaming expos, sports shows, trading card conventions, etc to buy and sell collections of cards. Covid made the entire collectibles industry go absolutely bonkers, and with that has come a recent wave of startups and financiers looking to "take over the industry", so to speak. An actual dream job. Congrats goon!!
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Congrats on the first substantial bonus! Usually the first of many
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