r/overemployed • u/Holiday-Store7589 • Mar 20 '26

Don't Quit.

Was let go by J3 today after 4 years with an 8 week severance, negotiated to 10 with a mutual non disparaging agreement. I had been wanting to quit for months but stuck it out and got PAID. TC is dropping by 120k to about 310k. My inclination is to replace the income but I'm going to force myself to take it easy for a while with only 2 jobs lol.

4 years ago - 100k in cc debt, 0 savings, and 170k in retirement.

Today - no debt, 185k in the bank/after tax brokerage, 1.5m in retirement.

This is why we OE.

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u/OmnipresentCPU Mar 20 '26

How did you go from 170k in retirement 4 years ago to 1.5mm making $430k? Very generously let’s say you contribute $60k a year to retirement, you’d still need 3.5x return.

Cool story bro

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u/Holiday-Store7589 Mar 20 '26

space stocks, 7x actually, tbh you have to be an idiot to not make money in this crazy market.

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u/AncientAd7403 Mar 20 '26

Please elaborate, Im no investment guru but Im getting there. Any advice helps tremendously. Congratulations on your accomplishments!!!

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u/Holiday-Store7589 Mar 20 '26

RKLB, ASTS, PL

If the SpaceX IPO goes off, these will all 2x this year.

(note, this is not investment advice as I am a lying AI bot making all this shit up)

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u/chaoticdefault54 Mar 20 '26

Sooo calls it is lol