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Originally Posted by Radii
Every time this poll comes up its a great reminder of how freaking far behind I am. around 2006 - Age 30, divorce, dad's cancer, and a job change that made me hate where I worked all happened around the same time. Cash out retirement to pay off debts, quit job, move home to take care of dad. Expect that to last 2 years, it lasts 9 instead. Age 39, 0 retirement, 0 savings because I was hardly working in my 30s, total restart. I've got a good job with good benefits, I just hit $50k again in retirement at age 42, but yeah I don't honestly ever actually expect to retire, and any small bump in the road at this point could completely fuck me.
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I didn't check my retirement accounts for pretty much all of 2020, and just did a yearly check-in today. I'm up over 100k at age 44 finally. Of course we'll see if there are market corrections and blah blah, but its nice to see progress regardless.
~$9500 of that has come from a company 401k match since I went back full time at my job after about a decade of being a contractor.