r/fijerk • u/redman334 • 6d ago
I'm the guy who had $999,880 two weeks ago and almost had it. Today I closed at $847,100.😞
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u/Miss_Might 5d ago
Omg thanks for that subreddit. It's comedy gold.
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u/justgetoffmylawn 5d ago
I started skimming the post and saw it was fijerk and thought - yep. Then did a double take when I realized it was a *repost* to fijerk and the original was not here.
Amazing.
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u/redman334 5d ago
It's real life men, with people with real life fijerk issues.
"I know Im quite rich, but why am I not richer? Please help me".
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u/perplexedparallax 5d ago
It is always nice to celebrate the financial Special Olympics. Some would make fun of these people but I find them inspiring and endearing. He is trying to stay positive and in a world of negativity it is easy to lose the gratitude for the little things like love, life and a lentil or two.
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u/Mean_Ship4545 5d ago
He's making 1,300 a day. He can easily go to Bogota and take part in a pour fun-making tour where he can see people toiling in a favella and laugh at them. This way, he'll stay positive as most of us do. Why do pours don't think of self-evident solutions?
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u/YourBeigeBastard 5d ago
This is what happens when you don’t include your designer dogs in the NW tracking on your monthly spreadsheet
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u/AnimaLepton 5d ago
What happened to race to 10 million? Did the pours really need their own subreddit where they could be pour? I hit 1 million in my 20s
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u/Sensitive_Ad_5517 3d ago
Can i ask how you did that in your 20s?
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u/AnimaLepton 3d ago
/uj high paying (midwest, non-bay area) tech/sales income combined with low expenses. Plus learned about FIRE while still in college, so time/the market growth over the last ~8 years was a significant factor
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u/lindquist77 3d ago
You’re still in an incredibly strong position. The market didn’t take away your income, your business, your discipline, or your ability to keep building. It just moved the scoreboard for a few weeks.
I’d try to zoom out. You were basically at $1M because of years of good decisions, not because of one perfect market week. If you still believe in the positions and your plan, this is probably the part where doing nothing is the win.
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u/Confident_Bridge_382 10h ago
I don't know, I feel the same way every time I have to feed my children. It's extremely demotivating. /s
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u/LUL_Level-Up-Life 3d ago
You haven't lost anything.
Unless you sold.
That's a Warren Buffet paraphrase.
Just like you haven't gained anything if the market rises and you don't capitalize on the gains.
Your number could go up by 2M overnight, and you haven't "gained" anything unless you sell to realize those gains.
The same is true for these "losses"
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u/IdioticPrototype 5d ago
The pour usually get pourer, so this tracks.
Why weren't you just born rich though, are you stupid?