I just needed to share this, as I am feeling quite emotional
I finally did it. My net worth reached
1 Million. The magic symbolic number. $1,003,000 to be precise. As of this morning, at the age of 33,
I am, officially, a MILLIONAIRE!
It took
SO much work, and
SO many sacrifices to get here. Honestly a lot more sacrifice than I could ever have imagined
. I gave up almost the entirety of my 20's throwing everything at my career while living extremely cheaply.
And I did this entirely on my own. I am actually worth more than both my parents and my siblings combined, and that's considering that I've made hundreds of thousands for them (I manage the family's finances and invest for them).
I come from a lower-middle class family. I have been financially entirely on my own since I was 18 and paid for my own university. (I would have loved to have met a significant other early on so that this could be something that we build together, but I was not that lucky.)
I could actually have reached it years earlier but had several setbacks along the way. Even in the last few months I came to within 25K of that magic number on 3 serapate occasions.
I was just seeing that my first post in this forum was 9 years ago when I had made my first 100K
:
https://www.early-retirement.org/fo...-to-live-instead-of-living-to-work-58848.html
This forum has been a nice oasis for people who share the same FIRE mentality and aspirations. Thank you all