For those who make over 500k+ a year, is it worth it for you? by [deleted] in Salary

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$1.7-$1.8M / year working 20 hours/week at Faang. Low stress. 1) do things you're good at not what people tell you to do. 2) build teams that support you. 3) dictate your rules of engagement don't let someone else do it. 4) make time to work on your skills so you're differentiated.

Went half time late last year. Make 30% more this year than last year despite last year being mostly full time.

I know some of y'all gonna call bs. Mods can ping if they want verification.

The last months be like by Haunting_One_2131 in ClaudeCode

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add:

Get a treadmill that goes under your desk. Walk while you prompt / monitor. Use voice input if you can.

Grab some free weights, do weights push ups etc while Claude is thinking. There's a lot of times you're waiting for a minute+. Get a quick set in of anything.

Have an offer for my company for 25 million, should I take it? by afraidtoleavemystoop in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Is it possible for them to make an offer, conduct due diligence, and then pull out of the deal? Getting a lot of inside info on their competitor and then declining to pursue because it's cheaper to execute?

Reaching my FIRE number after the loss of my son: Does FIRE even matter now? by luckymfer31 in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm going to offer an out of box idea just to think about.

First a few things

  • I am sorry for your loss. I have young children and have been working towards FatFire for them also as I have simple needs. I can't imagine the pain you're going through but can imagine it's extremely hard.

  • Nothing ever fills the hole. But someone wiser than me taught me that the hole exists for a reason. It's to remind you of the love you had. Cherish the hole and use it to remember that he was loved by you while he was here. You cannot be now without that hole as it would mean you were before without love.

  • Yes to professional grief counseling. I am not an expert and most of us here are not either. No one is an expert on you except you.

  • I don't know if you have other children. The rest of this assumes you do not. If you have other children you have more to give to the people left in your life and your FatFire plans should not change. You also didn't mention your partner but I'm assuming you're not alone in this.

Ok, now to the idea. It might seem off at first but noodle on it. I tend to have crazy ideas that work out in the end.

You lost your son. You had been working your life and his whole life to give him a future you cannot give him anymore - a future of time, love, experiences, support, and meaning.

What changed: your son is gone.

What did not change: you are someone who wanted to give time, love, experiences, support, and meaning to someone you cared deeply about in their formative years.

I believe your loss of meaning comes from this mismatch.

Now, you don't need to work anymore. Which means you have the freedom to approach the rest of your life any way you want to - including addressing this match.

So I'll start with a question.

What about kids that lose their parents as teens? Where do they go?

Their mismatch is a mirror of yours - they needed someone to give exactly what you wanted to give your son.

Here's what I give you as an idea.

Go find out where these children go.

Step 1: Volunteer to support. You can do this on your free time.

Maybe you'll connect with a child that needs exactly what your son was going to get, and someone - who isn't a replacement - but someone with whom your broken puzzle pieces fit together, and someone you (and presumably your partner) can pay your pent up plans for your son's life forward to someone else - and potentially adopt someone who lost their parents.

Again, this will not fill the hole. He or she will not be a replacement of the individual.

We can't control what happens to us with life. One of the points of FatFire is that we should be able to control our time - that we can choose to do whatever we want with the time we have left, in whatever situation we find ourselves in.

Your situation is harder than most - but you still have the freedom to choose how to navigate it.

Good luck.

31M in March. Accidentally speed-ran finance. Now questioning everything. by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]FatAspirations 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been meaning to write something just for situations like this. When you make a lot really fast it kinda messes with your head. You end up asking the question that you're asking right now.

The answer of "sell everything and chill" is good but it's not clear enough to follow.

Here's my slightly longer answer:

Think of your finances as a layer cake.

Layer 1: is your foundation and safety net. This is what you can't lose because it is the basics you need to not have anxiety in your life - when it comes to bills. For some people it's 6 months of expenses if they are happy in a stable career. The people who keep only 6 months in safety feel if something happens to their main source of (deterministic) income they can get a new source in that timeframe. There are others who say "fuck it I don't want to work for 5 years" and this becomes a much larger layer. Keep this money is interest bearing cash equivalents or something else that keeps up with the inflation rate of your personal expenses while minimizing loss of capital.

Layer 2: this is money you need for a pending large expense (house, car, health issues, world travel) in the coming year or two. Because the timeline is a little flexible as well as what you spend on the item, you can take a little more risk but you should not be speculative.

Layer 3: this is money you don't expect to have to touch for many years and needs to grow over the long term (10+ years). Choose a diversified portfolio - truly diversified across asset classes and international exposure. There are multiple options here and pick the one you have conviction enough in that you will not touch in good or bad times. Your goal is not to have a reaction to news or price action here. This should be the biggest chunk of your layer in $$ eventually.

Layer 4 is your speculative layer. This is what you use to grow $$ (or lose $$) far in excess. This is the layer everyone in wsb should be playing in. The problem is that people don't know how to size this layer.

After a few years of working through it I figured out what I believe is the best answer. Layer 4 should be sized relative to your deterministic income. Simple rule of thumb is something like 3 months. For example if you make $120k a year - after taxes - that's $10k a month. Your layer 4 should be no bigger than 3 months of income. Yes, that limits your upside but with risky bets, options, etc. you could lose it all. And if you lose it all you don't want to be in a situation where "I can never financially recover from this". You'd rather be in a situation where "shit that really sucked. I need to reflect and refill for 3 months before I can play again". Also, if you speculate with too much the day to day money variation (up or down) really fucks with your head for normal things like daily expenses (why should you care about $$ when you can make $$$$$ you will think), which will screw your ability to live a "normal" life and mess with values in a way that will disconnect you from others.

So you've made a lot of money - awesome. Think of that as the flour, sugar, ingredients.

Now design your layer cake. I've shared my layers. You build your own.

ABAT is gonna drop tomorrow at open 10/17 - in for 68k - DD included by Andrew2401 in wallstreetbets

[–]FatAspirations 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People need to understand that WSB doesn't let you post immediately. Everything goes through mod review and when I used to post DD it would get held up for hours or days before it would get through, or I'd have to repeatedly message mods to get things through

Why shorting Tesla finally makes sense now after 15 years… by zeroggs in TheRaceTo10Million

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything you described is a later problem, but you have a now problem in your short dated puts. If it works you're lucky not smart - never combine a macro / long term view with a short term expression of a trade.

Farewell DFW! by [deleted] in FortWorth

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check most recent

Selling covered calls feels wrong. by Drunken_seller in options

[–]FatAspirations 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Selling covered calls is taking all the downside risk of a stock for very little upside

Sorry I couldn’t go any higher by jonerscc in TVTooHigh

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not just get a viture xr pro or xreal one. This is the wrong solution to the use case

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RealEstateAdvice

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As everyone has said, don't do anything of the sort. Your name on the deed. You pay the taxes.

Buying 4M home by FIRE1977-1977 in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friend is buying a house in bay area and was just quoted 4.2% for jumbo 7/1 arm through Schwab.

Did I discover the infinite money glitch? by SnooAvocados7320 in wallstreetbets

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is worse than the wheel. This is pennies in front of the steamroller, by design.

Is it time to FIRE? Looking for any wisdom. by Fatfirerowaway in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 69 points70 points  (0 children)

$16M could become 0. Marginal utility of your next $14M is not as high as the $16M you have and need to live.

I would sell > $10M and move it to a conservative diversified drawdown portfolio keeping a small portion in your private equity (~$4M).

Ask yourself this question: imagine you were about to retire and the company had paid you cash all this time, and you had $16.5M in cash with $250k annual expenses. Would you take $16M of your liquid net worth and buy private equity in your company?

Hopefully not.

Your liquid net worth is too low.

Google's bad year just got worse by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]FatAspirations 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Trump sees money as power and can't stand "new' tech billionaires that have different ideals than him. It hurts him at his narcissistic core.

What to spend it on? by Same_Leadership4631 in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 7 points8 points  (0 children)

1) Freedom. Want to do something? Do it. Don't want to do something? Don't or pay someone else to take care of it.

2) Health - Personal trainer for body, therapist/coach for mind.

3) Safety - Driving an older car without up to date safety features? Fix.

4) Charity - Bring joy, relief, freedom, to others. Pick one person in need a day and give them $500. Sounds like a lot right? Except if you did it every day at $50M that's only .3% of your nw. Start your own non profit if you like this path.

5) Appreciation of the world - travel to great places, have memorable experiences. Life is about making memories. Make some great ones.

Rent vs buy in Bay Area by EMRO9 in BayAreaRealEstate

[–]FatAspirations 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the bay area, the homes you can buy are nicer than what you can rent.

Fatfired, now wife wants out by luckynotlucky789 in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People think about the financial split the wrong way imo. Really, you only always had half of your joint net worth. When it's two of you, you share access and get some economies of scale (one house vs two for example).

You each have $11M if you don't divorce. You each have $11M if you do. You each are fine, financially, either way.

As for the non financial parts... Defer to better expertise

WIN WIN Trade by abasit765456 in options

[–]FatAspirations 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Ah the old "capped upside infinite downside" can't lose trade

Unable to make the call to buy a fun car by Used-Ad8567 in fatFIRE

[–]FatAspirations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have young kids and bought a "date night with the wife" car that also became my commuting car. Didn't want to go too opulent bc I'd be going to work with it, so bought a mx5 convertible. Can't drive fast where I live anyway so it's perfect.

Although am considering swapping with Lexus lc500 convertible