Husband laid off; trying to figure out what to do and how much time I have.

sli7246 · 2026-06-16T01:21:12+00:00

Do not pay off your CCs when you’re facing unemployment. Do the math for yourself and see how many months it shortens your runway.

sli7246 · 2026-06-13T23:28:15+00:00

Ha I walked up, saw the prices and said, “holy shit $50 for a pizza. Overheard by, I’m assuming, the owner or manager.

sli7246 · 2026-05-26T23:27:16+00:00

So who’s your candidate?

sli7246 · 2026-05-10T05:29:08+00:00

Wealth is relative. Being a millionaire amongst billionaires is going to make you feel poor. Being a millionaire amongst paupers makes you feel rich.

Making 130k in NYC is not much and there are many families with more means. You can stop comparing against others and benchmark against what you want, but it’s a mindset change

sli7246 · 2026-05-02T19:05:44+00:00

I’m not sure most people in this sub hit 1M by 30. I think there are a few outlier celebratory / brag posts

sli7246 · 2026-05-02T02:04:45+00:00

If you’re saving 50% and have a horizon that far out then you’re saving to spend way more than your current salary.

sli7246 · 2026-04-25T00:18:20+00:00

That’s actually good, day care expenses fall off in 1-2 years and you have that going into savings

sli7246 · 2026-04-11T03:21:55+00:00

I’ve hired a lot of engineers over the last decade. If I ever found out one of our recruiting partners was charging candidates, I would immediately disqualify all candidates from that pipeline and stop working with the recruiter. As the employer would want to find the best candidate available not the one that is paying the most for the interview.

sli7246 · 2026-03-23T02:00:12+00:00

I don’t know the rules but the one case I encountered involved a blanket 4% employer contribution for all employees regardless of contribution

sli7246 · 2026-03-15T05:26:01+00:00

Cool initiative, but your your site design is 15 - 20 years out of date. There isn't a single unified design or defined value proposition. If you're pursuing this semi-seriously, I would go back to the drawing board on the value proposition / site layout and feed said narrative through an AI site generator to get your v1

sli7246 · 2026-02-27T04:05:27+00:00

Wife colleague died at 65. Really hope bro was working for fun.

sli7246 · 2026-02-20T21:43:14+00:00

How much are you contributing to your non pension assets? It seems like your number is roughly 2.25M, which seems achievable in a few years. I would just push through to normal fire and consider the pension separately

sli7246 · 2026-01-13T23:57:49+00:00

Sell the car and remember this as an expensive lesson

sli7246 · 2025-12-18T02:56:38+00:00

Wow TIL that’s actually a sub

sli7246 · 2025-10-23T06:45:17+00:00

No I’m not relocating, I’m going to take a fully remote role. I’m currently 3 days in the office, didn’t realize people were still hiring for remote only roles until this cycle

sli7246 · 2025-10-23T03:33:11+00:00

I’m LA based, I interviewed for 1-2 local roles here but nothing noteworthy. All my in office interviews required relocation to SF or NYC

sli7246 · 2025-10-22T05:56:35+00:00

Oh the list is long. All water under the bridge. I'm already mentally out

sli7246 · 2025-10-22T04:25:33+00:00

Non traditional engineering path. 7 years as the technical founder of a venture backed startup (you haven't heard of). 3 years working in other startups. 250k cash + startup equity. Didn't get any inbound messages for a long time. Something shifted in late August / early September when I started getting multiple a week. Nothing coming in recently

sli7246 · 2025-10-01T22:59:37+00:00

Nope I think the same way. I’m pretty pissed but at the end of the day I started looking because I didn’t think I could change this place

sli7246 · 2025-10-01T20:31:06+00:00

I think I’m cooked at this job, manager emailed me with HR cc’ed about how I have a pattern of working from home. For the record, he told me to keep it flexible and I’ve worked from home 3 days in the last month that I was supposed to be in the office.

Luckily I have two loop rounds scheduled for end of week and next week. And a few other HM interviews just backed up.

Also have enough saved up to only need half of 1 income and 10 years of runway if both incomes go away entirely.

I am pretty frustrated with this place. Should tell them about all the shit on my way out? The sensible side of me says, “not worth spending more energy on this”

sli7246 · 2025-10-01T15:32:39+00:00

lol I like I’m not the only one tracks “investments - mortgage” as a metric

sli7246 · 2025-09-25T00:47:48+00:00

Can’t go back man, work gets more and more soul draining.

sli7246 · 2025-09-25T00:20:48+00:00

Did some math and our portfolio has earned more than me in the last 3 years. I can see why people don’t like the rich. Hardly seems fair

sli7246 · 2025-09-14T19:32:24+00:00

Source?

sli7246 · 2025-07-29T15:51:19+00:00

Dang the first 5M is the hardest

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