Milestone Wednesday (?):
I now have enough to support spending to cover my expenses from when I first moved out my parents house for my first job. Congratulations past me for finally reaching FIRE.
Of course due to lifestyle inflation and regular inflation, I still have quite a ways to go to reach enough to cover my current expenses
Congrats! And yeah, the regular inflation is a real PITA right now.
Have a Discord of close friends of mine I’ve had for 10+ years, all very smart wonderful people. While I’m definitely “the fire guy,” they are all decent with money. Around September of last year a few of them were really getting nervous about putting more money in the market with all the discussion of a recession. I threw a GCal notification to see what the market was doing in a year but couldn’t help but check it early…it’s up like 18% since then. Don’t try and time the market folks, stick to the strategy
I was just thinking of all of the people even like 3-4 months ago that were pulling back on investments. Gotta have a plan and stick to it…
Off to Colorado today. Staying for nearly a week. Would love to RE somewhere in the mountains; just have to convince my SO. And also potentially revise my FI # much higher if we leave MCOL…
Fun! Where are you planning to visit in Colorado?
Denver ‘burbs. Going to a wedding in the Golden area. I’ve been there a few times before but I want to check out the Spyderco outlet during my free time.
Golden is a great area. Super close to the mountains, yet still all the benefits of living in the city. I hope you have a great time!
Good morning! Figured I’d keep this going today. Want to make sure there’s something for folks to jump in to as Reddit continues to drive people away.
Hopefully a decent group of people stay here. Of course, having a smaller group is kind of nice.
It would be nice if someone technically inclined could figure out a way to automate the daily thread so no one has to remember to start one manually each day.
Ah the joys of customers having unrealistic expectations. A short snippet of an extended conversation today.
PM: We have to get this done in the next sprint
Dev team: That’s not technically feasible. We need a minimum of 4-5 just for development.
PM: That’s not acceptable to Customer. We have to get it done sooner than that.
Dev team: Unfortunately that’s the soonest we can get it done.
PM: Customer will leave over this if we can’t get it done sooner.
Dev team: Well…it’s still not feasible to do it any faster.
This went on for at least an hour.
The best part is this functionality the customer is demanding has a very real chance of taking down the entire system when they start using it as intended and the powers that be still didn’t tell them to eff off.