Just wanted to brag to internet strangers because I can't tell friends or family. I just hit 75k in savings from investments to retirements account, age 27 ! And I didn't do it with some HCOL job making 200k/yr..

I am 26 with a similar story.

I have about 70k in my 401k equivalent and 40k in the bank.

I started working at the age of 21 at an audit firm. I hated my life for the two years I was there. After I quit I realized that I needed another way to secure my retirement.

I vaguely remembered something about compounding interest from university which led me to FIRE.

My next job was at a bank. I stayed another two years.

Then I ended up hating my job again and quit but then I got laid off from my third company.

I was lucky and found another job in a big organization and I hope to stay for a while this time but who knows what will happen.

Accounting may have caused me a lot of misery over the years but at least I learnt about compounding interest lol.

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