Looking Forward to Autumn
Hi Friends! It's been such a long time since I have been able to blog! I hope you are all doing well. My new job has taken up so much of time time. It's a very difficult job. I definitely only plan to work here for a max of 10 to 11 years. The hours are killer and I don't want to be working 12 to 14 hour days everyday in my 50s and 60s. My goal is to retire from this job at 48 or 49 and take a much less stressful job until retirement. (Unless I get fired or demoted.) The job does pay well and definitely has incentives to encourage people to work hard. In my first 7 months of employment I have received almost $8k in bonuses. I don't expect my bonuses to be anywhere that high in the future. So the plan is to really work hard for as long as I can and invest/save that money to push myself toward early retirement. Right now my roth and my brokerage account have about $95k total in them. I have 5 more months before I am able to parti...