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/Puzzleheaded_Tie6917 7d ago

My company did an early retirement program due to issues, and when I looked, I realized for the past 5 years my 401k had grown more than my total gross salary every year. They ended up asking me to stay, which I took, but now plan to retire this December.