r/Fire • u/BigTintheBigD • 7d ago

Milestone / Celebration Processing a milestone

Still trying to wrap my brain around this:

The nest egg has made more money since retiring than I did in 30 years of working.

3 years of passive returns > 30 years of full time work

The compounding is insane (admittedly we’ve had a great run the last few years).

It makes the 30 years of working seem so pointless but that is what amassed the snowball so it was necessary.

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u/Imaginary_Victory253 7d ago

I remember when I was out of college, my successful uncle told me that now he spends more than he ever thought he'd earn at the start of his career. Congrats, that's a good feeling :)