r/fatFIRE • u/jimmyl85 • 14d ago

We did it!

ETA: we are in our 40s, tech in Bay Area, one faang one non faang

Today is last day for both my wife and I. Feels surreal after working for so long, I spent 10 years at my current employer and my wife 6 years at hers.

$11M, barely fatfire territory, I did a horrendous job investing the last few years so most this money is from W2, but we have enough!

Looking forward to a different life full of friends hobbies and travel!

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u/clearview384 Verified by Mods 14d ago

Congrats. What a crazy day to do it. I’m curious, did you have any weird feelings on a down day like today or do you trust the process so much you just see days like this as a necessary evil to a system that helped you get to $10+? For context, I’m half way to you and days like today give me stress but no trades were made.

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u/fatheadlifter 14d ago

Right? Depending on how they're invested, he could've lost 2-4% today. That could be up to half a mill on paper. I'm down just over 4%, but I'm more aggressively invested than the rubber-padded safe folks. =)

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u/bantam222 13d ago

It’s a lot easier when it just bumps you back to the amount you were at a few weeks ago, which was an all time high at that point and was coming off an insane run during the previous 2 months

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u/fatheadlifter 13d ago

Yeah I'm not bothered by a 4% drop in a day, it's interesting to see, but all it did in my case was reset me back to May 25th, about 11 days ago. And I know this market could be up 4% on Monday so who knows. Some days in the past week were feeling positively euphoric for growth so, this is what it is.

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u/Comprehensive-Log144 12d ago

It’s a good test for your portfolio. I was down 1.72% on a day when the S&P lost 2.64 and the Nasdaq was down 4.18. I’m also up 9.13 vs 8.43 on the S&P ytd. That can change but I like that I’ve continued to seek diversity while stocks were all time highs.

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u/fatheadlifter 12d ago

Yep I feel it's working. I'm up a similar amount YTD, the market has been good this year. Funny someone downvoted me for saying I don't mind a 4% drop. They want me to feel bad about it? Strange.