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Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?

51 points · 71 comments · karmanyaahm

tigerlily · 1790224229 · focus · HN ↗
This is cool, but I for one hope to be able to continue to work until my last dying day.
1. sevenzero · 1790224456 · focus · HN ↗
  Used to think the same when joining the field and now I despise every minute I have to work on software I don't care about. AI even made it worse as I joined the field due to liking the coding part, not the results. Well, there isn't really an alternative for me either as there are basically no jobs I could learn that pay equally well...
  1. SA9G · 1790224822 · focus · HN ↗
    Hopefully you can retire early and then work on software you do like!! All those glorious ideas you had... but didn't have the time for. But be careful on the retirement part, the numbers go out the window (Andersen not Microsoft) when inflation bites :-(
    techcode · 1790226000 · focus · HN ↗
    Do numbers go completely out the window due to inflation?
    While the price of gas, real-estate, groceries doubled or tripled over the last 10-15 years (here in NL).
    It also seems that Stocks/ETFs also did the same, right?
    Some of the Tech/IT/AI (and hence to some extent also S&P500 that's heavy on those) increased even more. But even if we consider it an artificial bubble - loads of other more traditional industries/ETFs also grew similarly to inflation, didn't they?
    hdgvhicv · 1790226601 · focus · HN ↗
    Gas as in petrol?
    It’s up 48% in 15 years, and until the Us-Iran war it was only up 14%
    <a href="https://fuelwide.com/fuel-prices/netherlands/history" rel="nofollow">https://fuelwide.com/fuel-prices/netherlands/history
    Grocery inflation is 45% over the same period but I suspect you’ll claim CPI figures are nonsense.
    Gas for heating has indeed about doubled, unsurprising with both Ukraine and Iran.

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