Tax : 27 Nw - 1.5M TC 700 from appreciation 400-450 otherwise E5 I got my bonus yesterday, before tax 67K. That’s how much my cousin who started her first job out of college at age 23 made for her first year . It’s how much my brother at 30 made his resident year. My family grew up poor / lower middle class and I had a lot of money trauma I worked on. I feel a lot of guilt that I have it so easy (the job is genuinely like 25 hrs a week) and others are working so hard. I hope to have a nest egg to support my family and extended family reasonably including my parent. This has all made me realize two things 1) focusing on my mental and physical health and the things that are important to me is such a luxury and what I get to devote myself to. 2) I don’t have to set any other expectation of promotion, start a company do a startup whatever unless I truly feel that is my direction Instead I know things I never thought I could do before should be where my energy goes. I love sports and exercise and spend 1-2 hours a day on it. I’ve been taking guitar and singing lesson and producing so much music and improved over the last year immensely. Honestly I wouldn’t even be here if I wasn’t a video game addict who did decent in school and thought”who makes video games? Computer scientists? Ok let’s apply to that”
Great job meta mate. I’m almost 10 years older than you and have similar numbers. So you are killing it.
Thanks I have been really fortunate that my undergrad gave good financial aid and I worked during school and summer to pay it off. Got lucky coming to FB from undergrad and I found the financial independence subreddit after I signed my job offer and studied the forms for 6 months before starting my job. Then a frugal lifestyle and working at at Meta helped to start (money trauma kinda helped too lol) Do you have a family? 1.5 in mid 30 is still amazing
Yup I do have a family. 2 kids.
Preach 33y/o 12m net worth. Insane. I grew up being kicked out from places to this.
I'm happy for you and similar lucky people like you that joined meta the right time Im sad for myself that even I passed the bar I picked Amazon for more money and got laid off and couldn't get a stable job since then Lost at least 700-800$ per year ao far I wish I become a bit luckier
I’m happy for you. Hope you can stay healthy and happy and grateful. Cheers.
This is the kind of post I want to see. I see way too many whiny posts on this app. Congrats and I'm happy to see there are people who truly appreciate what they have and earned.
Awesome Bro. What domain do you work on?
I do product work and growth stuff like running a ton of AB tests, data analysis and full stack - the engineer work is a minor part I’m more DS and PM
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I'm happy for you and can relate to that money trauma thing growing up too.
Have you found space to explore and understand it better? It really is a vicious thing that’s hard to really be rationale with
Yes, particularly as it relates to my strong sense of personal frugality/stinginess, and how to help me to me nice to myself. It's been a journey but an ongoing one.