I just looked up my earnings for the first time...it's really fascinating. I have these memories of years when things were really tight and about a time when I took a leap of faith quitting one job to take another for half the pay, but seeing it in numbers is really wild what I made work. In that switch I actually went from $44,000 to $14,000 with that job peaking at $27,000 after 3 years. The lesson in this I think is that I also had always been frugal, so I had savings which I lived off of for quite some time, but sadly deferred investing during a large chunk of early adulthood.
I just looked up my earnings for the first time...it's really fascinating. I have these memories of years when things were really tight and about a time when I took a leap of faith quitting one job to take another for half the pay, but seeing it in numbers is really wild what I made work. In that switch I actually went from $44,000 to $14,000 with that job peaking at $27,000 after 3 years. The lesson in this I think is that I also had always been frugal, so I had savings which I lived off of for quite some time, but sadly deferred investing during a large chunk of early adulthood.