Financial Goals 2015 - Well done, everybody!

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Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

BossRighteous posted:

Oh hush, lol. We all have to start somewhere.

Edit: Sorry, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I thought you were making fun of me since a lot of people in this forum make 6 figures as a couple. I'm not the exception but I'm certainly not impressive comparatively :I

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Monthly post tax income of $39k for 2 people (married)

That would put you at well over half a million gross, annually, which would indeed be impressive.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 08:17

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 08:00

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

Financial 2015 Goals:

- Max out IRAs (myself and wife) for 2014 and 2015 tax years and 401k for 2015
- Net worth to $160,000 (currently around 110,000 I think)
- Get a decent number of points to travel around on via churning

Non-financial 2015 Goals:

- Win more games of Starcraft in the inter-corporate gaming league I play in than I did last season (3).
- Set new personal records for bench 1rm and mile run on my 30th birthday in November (aiming for 125% of body weight and < 6:30 respectively)

# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 22:55

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

SpelledBackwards posted:

Good luck, UNLESS you're taking about AHGL and you work for a company competing against National Instruments. Then I can't support your endeavor.

We lost in the ace against you dudes last season's playoffs, this season we will be laying waste to you and the entire AHGL. None shall be spared our wrath. A sweet vengeance for rejecting me in my senior year of CS.

(the bag I got from the interviews was very useful for this year's Christmas vacation though)

# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 04:24

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

Quarterly Report:

- Max out IRAs (myself and wife) for 2014 and 2015 tax years and 401k for 2015
Maxed out IRAs for 2014 tax year. On track for maxing out 401k. Gotta wait until I accumulate some more cash before I max out IRAs for 2015.
- Net worth to $160,000 (currently around 110,000 I think)
A little over 150k right now. Big jump in January and then February, first from annual bonus, then from a year's worth of RSUs vesting. 160k was probably still too conservative a goal, but at least this way I'll be able to blow past it!
- Get a decent number of points to travel around on via churning
Yeah I gave up on this. I just don't feel like it's worth the time/effort right now with the amount of travel we do. I definitely want to try again someday though.

Non-financial 2015 Goals:

- Win more games of Starcraft in the inter-corporate gaming league I play in than I did last season (3).
Currently at 3 wins (and 1 loss). Just one more, shouldn't be too hard as currently our team is #1 in the league. Should push our captain to put me in for the first round of playoffs when we'll (probably) be up against the #32 seed.
- Set new personal records for bench 1rm and mile run on my 30th birthday in November (aiming for 125% of body weight and < 6:30 respectively)
Will start working on this after Starcraft season is over. For now the only exercise I'm getting is biking to work.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 23:40

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

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Financial 2015 Goals:

- Max out IRAs (myself and wife) for 2014 and 2015 tax years and 401k for 2015

Basically Yes: Maxed out IRAs for myself and wife for 2014 tax year, maxed out conventional 401k contributions, and somewhat unexpectedly also after-tax 401k contributions (started this in September and my paychecks have been tiny since). Won't be able to max out 2015 IRAs until 2016, oh well, next year I'll do 'em all, I still contributed more to retirement accounts this year than anticipated.

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- Net worth to $160,000 (currently around 110,000 I think)

Yes: I think I reached this around early summer and then stalled due to, well, spending. First a trip to Europe, after that just misc. stuff that we need to get a better grip on. Still, we're up a little over 160k.

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- Get a decent number of points to travel around on via churning

Nope

. Keep meaning to do this but whenever I research seems like there's no straightforward way to do manufactured spending. But, even our regular CC spending is high enough to where we could get a fair number of points, so I guess that's not really a good excuse.

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Non-financial 2015 Goals:

- Win more games of Starcraft in the inter-corporate gaming league I play in than I did last season (3).

Yes, won 4 games. I also lost like 4 or 5 games but that wasn't part of my goal!

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- Set new personal records for bench 1rm and mile run on my 30th birthday in November (aiming for 125% of body weight and < 6:30 respectively)

Nope, never got around to it. Someday!

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 21:00

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 08:00

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

SpelledBackwards posted:

Way to go. I wish I could've followed along this season since my coworkers (National Instruments) did so well last season, but there was no fanfare around this one and practically no games were casted.

Previous hype levels unsustainable for what they're doing, really. It's too bad there's no AHGL this next year.

Also I beat NI's NightFury in our match so neener-neener.

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I only have WoL, so I don't think I could have even played the replays if I'd wanted to. Lame.

LotV is pretty good.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2015 05:18

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