I wouldn't go back ... I don't want to go through that all over again. I'll be fortunate to make it through from my age right now.
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I honestly wouldn't change a thing. If one thing would have changed, none of the rest would have happened the way it did.
I retired(actually transferred to Fleet Reserve
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Now, I am back in school, majoring in History, with a Teaching Licensure in Secondary Education. Complete change of pace. Loving every minute of it, so far.
I retired(actually transferred to Fleet Reserve
Now, I am back in school, majoring in History, with a Teaching Licensure in Secondary Education. Complete change of pace. Loving every minute of it, so far.
I would have stayed in the Navy to finish out my 20 and then went to the Air Guard for the rest of my life.
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Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
If your employer offers a retirement plan (hopefully with some matching), put some money in it regularly even if it is a small amount. My father told me that stocks were a shell game to avoid after he lost money trying to play the market in the '70s, but that was awful advice and it pains me to think of how much even small investments I could have made when I started working 30 years ago would be worth now.
Good luck!
Found this S&P500 calculator. If you had invested 10k 30 years ago, it'd be worth around $140,000 today. If you did that 40 years ago, it'd be worth $776k.
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ If you had given Warren Buffett $1,000 fifty years ago, you would be a multimillionaire.Instead, I spent my thousand on a pos 66 Dodge Dart I special ordered. *^%#@^%^%#
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
If your employer offers a retirement plan (hopefully with some matching), put some money in it regularly even if it is a small amount. My father told me that stocks were a shell game to avoid after he lost money trying to play the market in the '70s, but that was awful advice and it pains me to think of how much even small investments I could have made when I started working 30 years ago would be worth now.
Good luck!
Found this S&P500 calculator. If you had invested 10k 30 years ago, it'd be worth around $140,000 today. If you did that 40 years ago, it'd be worth $776k.
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ If you had given Warren Buffett $1,000 fifty years ago, you would be a multimillionaire.Instead, I spent my thousand on a pos 66 Dodge Dart I special ordered. *^%#@^%^%#
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I would invent and patent the pet rock, the George Foreman grill, and the internet before Al Gore.
Wasn't that Loogle or something like that from hot tub time machine? Anyway, the obvious one would be to remember the winning lottery ticket numbers.
I would invent and patent the pet rock, the George Foreman grill, and the internet before Al Gore.
Wasn't that Loogle or something like that from hot tub time machine? Anyway, the obvious one would be to remember the winning lottery ticket numbers.
What type of ATF are you using?
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