Good afternoon,
Awhile back I started reading this forum and it has changed my mindset quite a bit. Since then I've made considerable choices to my lifestyle that are reaping some nice benefits. Once I realized where I wanted to go I started tracking my finances and situations which showed me where I stood. I've changed jobs, left my wife, totally revamped all of my habits and hobbies all in effort to make myself a happier person and to be happy with the one and only time I get to spend on this Earth.
Good and bad all this started here.
Last month marked a year at my new job, in a new industry, with zero experience. Last week I was given my performance review. I killed that and walked away with a raise. I took all of that raise and converted it into my 401k. This week I was called over to corporate to be offered a job as the asset manager of our company being responsible for over 150 million dollars of assets! I'll be moving from one of the lowest scale employees in our company to working directly with our CEO, COO, CFO and many others of the executive management team. I cant explain how awesome that is!
I started out using Google sheets to analyze my personal finances and then switched over to Excel. Once in this job I used that knowledge to analyze many facets of our operations and it apparently got noticed.
I just want to thank MMM for getting this FIRE started and for showing me where the matches were to start a real F.I.R.E. one of these days. I couldn't have gotten to where I am without this website.
THANK YOU GUYS AND GALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!