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For context outside of tech. I have a super flexible job with amazing benefits. I haven't missed a single thing my kids have done, unless I chose to. And I'll

For context outside of tech. I have a super flexible job with amazing benefits. I haven't missed a single thing my kids have done, unless I chose to. And I'll work until I'm 75. I say this not out of being bitter, but for the context that many (probably most) people who do what they love to do don't get the massive paychecks even mid-tier tech jobs get. Context is everything.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
To be honest it vastly depends on what you expect to need in retirement. Based on my current salary and estimated retirement payment (which some online calculator calculated at ~2/3rds my income) I'm still slightly below what I should be saving for that. But by then I will both need more money to take care of family (hopefully) and less money since I should have long paid off my house and car by then. My salary is much higher than household average but far from unheard of in tech. There are definitely some scrappy college grads getting offers higher than it. and I have 3+ decades to increase it.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
  You only expect to need one car from now through the end of your retirement?
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    Ha, okay fair. But I'm hoping any subsequent cars can be bought outright instead of under a plan. But who knows with inflation? Post retirement I should definitely have the finances to get some pretty nice sports car.
Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
>And I'll work until I'm 75 If you’re lucky. Modern medicine still has yet to solve most major disabilities for people in their sixties. It will be hard to work if you’re suffering any of the innumerable disabling diseases. What will you do then?
- Loughla 3y ago
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  - osigurdson 3y ago
    This is not a good strategy. Your job is likely not as secure as you think, particularly once you are legitimately elderly.
    - Loughla 3y ago
      I see you're unfamiliar with higher education. All joking aside, it seems to be the one area that only wants the elderly.
  - BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
    Too bad by that time, someone will have figured out how to look up everything you've ever posted online to dig up insurance-invalidating comments like this one.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

To be honest it vastly depends on what you expect to need in retirement. Based on my current salary and estimated retirement payment (which some online calculator calculated at ~2/3rds my income) I'm still slightly below what I should be saving for that. But by then I will both need more money to take care of family (hopefully) and less money since I should have long paid off my house and car by then. My salary is much higher than household average but far from unheard of in tech. There are definitely some scrappy college grads getting offers higher than it. and I have 3+ decades to increase it.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
You only expect to need one car from now through the end of your retirement?
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Ha, okay fair. But I'm hoping any subsequent cars can be bought outright instead of under a plan. But who knows with inflation? Post retirement I should definitely have the finances to get some pretty nice sports car.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago

>And I'll work until I'm 75 If you’re lucky. Modern medicine still has yet to solve most major disabilities for people in their sixties. It will be hard to work if you’re suffering any of the innumerable disabling diseases. What will you do then?

Loughla 3y ago
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- osigurdson 3y ago
  This is not a good strategy. Your job is likely not as secure as you think, particularly once you are legitimately elderly.
  - Loughla 3y ago
    I see you're unfamiliar with higher education. All joking aside, it seems to be the one area that only wants the elderly.
- BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
  Too bad by that time, someone will have figured out how to look up everything you've ever posted online to dig up insurance-invalidating comments like this one.