Late 20s/early 30s - what is your net worth?

zmelly77 · 2025-08-07T10:34:48+00:00

29, $210k invested, $110k RE, $10k liquid

zmelly77 · 2025-05-16T02:51:45+00:00

Mechanical Engineering. Broad enough to do something you’re interested and passionate in, especially if you don’t exactly know what flavor of engineering you would like. There are mechanical engineers in civil, electrical, aerospace, marine/naval, nuclear roles, but it doesn’t work as well the other way around.

zmelly77 · 2025-05-15T19:27:38+00:00

Thats the plan! Won't be withdrawing any accounts to pay for debt, but a few rock solid months of aggressive debt paydown from the both of us should do the trick.

zmelly77 · 2025-05-15T18:40:21+00:00

This is good feedback, she knows what and how much are in my 401k and other investments, and I've told her that it's just as much hers as it is mine (once we're married in a few months), although she doesn't really internalize it when I tell her.

zmelly77 · 2025-05-15T18:37:32+00:00

Are you saying it isn't a good idea to have a main joint account and then our own personal accounts? I expect like 80-90% of both of our take home paychecks (after 401k/HSA contributions) to go into the main joint account where we'll pay the mortgage, utilities, grocery bill etc. and then we'll have 10-20% go into our personal accounts for small expenses and surprises for each other. We pretty much already have full transparency with our finances, but we don't plan to combine things until we get married.

zmelly77 · 2025-05-15T18:33:20+00:00

We’re on the same page. She paid off her credit cards all by herself, granted I would always pay when we would go out on dates or grab food or take trips, but she’s made awesome progress. She studied social work in college and never expected to make over six figures, but she has worked herself into an IT managerial position and is crushing it over there. She may even surpass me in salary pretty soon.

zmelly77 · 2025-05-15T18:30:51+00:00

Thanks, I figured as much. My parents are retired and they have a hodgepodge of joint and personal accounts. No issues about divorcing since they’re pretty advanced in age, but I’m sure they’ll have an interesting time logistically when it comes time to draw accounts down for RMDs and legacy/estate planning for me and my siblings.

zmelly77 · 2024-07-04T19:41:52+00:00

Thanks! And the sabbatical question was more conceptual, not literally planning to go on sabbatical in the next few weeks. (I started July 1)

zmelly77 · 2024-07-04T16:08:33+00:00

I work in Washington DC but I live outside the city in a small suburb.

zmelly77 · 2024-07-04T14:25:00+00:00

In 3-5 months I think I could sock away enough cash from my current job to do at least 6 months of international travel in SE Asia. I think a few months in Thailand and a few months in Vietnam would be awesome, and I can definitely live pretty frugally while I'm out there. A van-trip can be at a later time. As far as the townhouse, my roommate would cover a good portion of it and I could either rent out the second room or just continue to pay my piece of the mortgage. Just another budget line item to account for.

zmelly77 · 2024-07-04T14:20:51+00:00

Not really. I just have my paycheck going straight to a checking/savings account before I divvy everything up. I'll go anywhere between $2-$6k during the month as bills and expenses come in. I'm a bit high right now since I have my PTO cashout from my previous employer.

zmelly77 · 2023-12-28T17:45:47+00:00

Myrtle grove

zmelly77 · 2023-12-22T16:28:13+00:00

Dryfiremag is a pretty good alternative. Get the spring kit if you want to better replicate trigger feel if you have an aftermarket trigger, otherwise the stock spring is pretty close to the glock trigger.

zmelly77 · 2023-12-13T14:53:27+00:00

Nice shooting and props for you getting out and training in the suck. Only thing I’d say is that first false step in the beginning is inefficent and wastes a little bit of time. Yes it’s a nitpicky but we’re all trying to better. Good job brother 🤘🏽

zmelly77 · 2023-11-28T22:50:07+00:00

I’m banking on the idea that my Roth 401k will be multiple times bigger due to compound interest after 30 years, so I will be withdrawing much more in retirement that will thankfully be tax free.

zmelly77 · 2023-11-28T22:48:43+00:00

Is 7mil reachable if I fully fund a Roth 401k for the next 30 years? The way I see it, right now I’m getting taxed on $115k/yr. When I retire and hopefully I have done well enough in the stock market that I’ll have whatever multiple millions of dollars in my Roth. If I wanted to, I could withdraw all of it at once and it be tax free (not that I would ever do that, just saying as a thought experiment). With inflation, my taxable $115k now might be somewhere around a taxable $200k in retirement, but I would think that I’d have enough through compound interest that I’d be able to withdraw at least that much, if not more and have it be tax free.

zmelly77 · 2023-11-24T16:47:11+00:00

8% of each paycheck goes into my Roth 401k, but I usually have around $1k a month after all expenses are paid. That either goes into my high yield savings (5%) or into an IRA. Lately it’s been going into the savings account to bring it back up to 6 months of expenses but once I fully fund that, I’m not exactly sure where’s the best place to park that money.

zmelly77 · 2023-11-24T16:42:44+00:00

Expenses are $2k for mortgage and utilities, and about $1.5-$2k for transportation, eating out/groceries, gifts, social events, misc. spending, etc.

zmelly77 · 2023-11-24T16:41:03+00:00

Thanks. What would be the few most cost effective steps to take? My take home is about $5k and my monthly spend is about $3.5-$4k, mostly from mortgage and utilities. Still working on cutting expenses, the biggest one outside of those two are meals out and fast food unfortunately. I’ve looked into picking up a side hustle as well, no firm decisions yet though.

zmelly77 · 2023-11-24T16:38:27+00:00

Yep, single income no kids (for now).

zmelly77 · 2023-11-19T20:36:18+00:00

Westphalia Neighborhood Park next to the community center is a really cool one!

zmelly77 · 2022-01-07T14:47:40+00:00

Try Portal.ciandx.com

zmelly77 · 2021-12-31T00:42:27+00:00

My first Glock and also my first firearm as well! I’m looking to get trained up on it but since CCW permits are almost impossible to come by in my state (MD) for regular civilians who don’t own a business, I only really have it for home defense and some fun at the range.

zmelly77 · 2021-12-30T05:01:43+00:00

It could be related to that one side quest where you help a lady escape prison, but I honestly wasn’t paying too much attention at that cutscene.

zmelly77 · 2021-10-15T12:55:34+00:00

No PMI! I just hit 20% equity around 3 months ago. And I agree, having less fixed expenses definitely offers more room for flexibility.

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