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Thanks. Enjoying the lack of a mortgage, paid the tax and done. Interest on that money just kept sucking the value of the payments I was making, tax was a one shot hit that is still stinging but I know it was just the one and done.
My company has managed my 401k since I started there last century. Until recently I had no say in how it was invested, and couldn’t even add my own earnings to my fund. It was all put there as a percentage of my annual income and as profit share. When it was all just a part of my income that I never saw, it was just a pie in the sky number that I hoped would pay off someday, no guarantee, no expectation. Now it is a real thing, it is my home and my property and the knowledge that all I have to do is stay here and I have a place to stay. That is not pie in the sky, that’s real and some days it feels like it is the only thing that is. Can’t describe the feeling of stability I have never had before, even after almost 40 years here it isn’t one month x 12 x 40 anymore.
My company has managed my 401k since I started there last century. Until recently I had no say in how it was invested, and couldn’t even add my own earnings to my fund. It was all put there as a percentage of my annual income and as profit share. When it was all just a part of my income that I never saw, it was just a pie in the sky number that I hoped would pay off someday, no guarantee, no expectation. Now it is a real thing, it is my home and my property and the knowledge that all I have to do is stay here and I have a place to stay. That is not pie in the sky, that’s real and some days it feels like it is the only thing that is. Can’t describe the feeling of stability I have never had before, even after almost 40 years here it isn’t one month x 12 x 40 anymore.