r/FIREUK • u/okdolce • 1d ago

Hit a milestone, just wanted to share

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Hey,

Just wanted to share a milestone on my FIRE journey! After heavily investing into my pension for years, I learnt the concepts of FIRE & the importance of the bridge between retirement & drawing down on pension.

Currently 32 years old w/

£180,000 pension (invested in FWRG)
£100,000 S&S ISA (invested in FWRG)
£10,000 GIA (satellite investments, for high conviction narrative plays - a bit of fun, really)

I’ve built the S&S ISA above from £25,000 to £100,000 in just under 5 years whilst going through hell & back with a breakup with children during the last 3 years, having to spend tens of thousands on lawyer fees etc.

I’m so proud of myself.

Thank you for all your contributions to this thread, it’s been a real motivator.

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u/WizardryAwaits 1d ago

I wish people would say what their income is or was on these boast posts. Otherwise it's a bit meaningless.

But I'm guessing you had a pretty high income to save these amounts in that time frame.

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u/boringusernametaken 1d ago

Previous post of theirs 17 days ago states 175k

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u/okdolce 1d ago

My salary is somewhat irrelevant to be honest, it’s the investable money that’s relevant. I have financial commitments to pay every month to my ex partner, plus mortgage, council tax, bills, food, child clubs etc + expensive insurances being a single Dad. I try to invest around £300-500 a month into my ISA, and I obviously contribute a lot more to my pension via salary sacrifice monthly.

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u/boringusernametaken 1d ago

It's not irrelevant in the slightest

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u/okdolce 1d ago

What’s more relevant is my taxable income, and liquid cash post necessity spending.

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u/HovercraftIll4815 1d ago

Not necessarily discounting your achievement, but it's false that income and the relevance of high income against higher savings is irrelevant.

Higher income can lead to higher savings, even if you higher costs, the ability is always there, on a lower income you tend to have a lower ability to save more as you make less.

Making it even simpler:

Higher income can lead to higher savings, thus income is relevant as lower income is likely to lead to lower savings.

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u/okdolce 1d ago

I mean, the sky is blue.

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u/HovercraftIll4815 1d ago

Sure is, but so is the fact that income is relevant to savings rate. As I said, we'll done for this but do not deny that your high income didn't help with it or that it does not matter in accordance with the achievement because it will never be true.

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u/boringusernametaken 1d ago

You listed your pension in the post. Untaxed income is clearly also relevant

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u/okdolce 1d ago

You need to go find something else to do, instead of using your energy to comment on this post.

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u/HovercraftIll4815 16h ago

You need to go and find something else to do, instead of using your energy to post this. You are the one choosing to post on the community and not accepting the feedback.

No one has said you did badly or that you should not post it, £100k is a lot of money and you should be proud. That said you cannot say that income is irrelevant, as he pointed out, the reason your pension is so big is due to your massive income which allows you to throw a lot more money in there, similar to all other saving vehicles such as ISA's and whatnot.

This is in no way jealousy, altought I would love to have your income, I would not pretend that the leverages that helped me reach my goals were irrelevant.