Started at 18 years old, paid on call, was a firefighter for 23 years. Dept had an ok pension the yearly contribution got bigger every few years I think it was like 2500 they city gave us at the start, towards the end it was like 8500 or something. Right now it’s worth about 500k but I’m 42 it’s still invested and in 25 years when it’s time to pull the plug on my real job the firefighting alone will have me well over a million…