What’s your net worth?

More than 4M ...
...yen

 

Not much for me but a fair bit for my dependents, if they play it right.
Of course there could be another plague, or a submoron president.
'The careful plans of mice and men . . .'

 

My two great regrets:

I didn't start buying Tribune Company stock at the 15 percent employee discount during the entire time it was a public stock (my first 23 years there). Only did so over my last 8 years.
I didn't start contributing 15 percent to the 401(k) when I was 25 (contributed 4-6 percent for 20 years, and 15-19 percent for 15 years).

 

In my 15 or so years in the family-owned newspaper business, I could only afford to contribute about 6% because I needed the rest to live on. What I did contribute was horribly mismanaged by the family. Since I freed myself from being an indentured servant, rolled it into a retirement account overseen by someone who knows what he's doing, the same money has more than quadrupled.

 

I got offered AOL stock when I worked for Patch, but never bought it. "Why would I want AOL stock in 2012?" Well, because they still controlled a bunch of patents, and the dial-up industry in Canada and some other places, apparently. The stock went up and split while I was there, I believe, and I had 0 shares of it.

My wife works for Shell, and as a perk, she gets to buy stock once a year at a discount. She can then immediately sell it, and usually pockets an immediate 5 to 10 percent gain, which goes right back into her index fund. Not bad at all.

 

I suspect very few of us maxed out while young and in journalism. I know I didn’t.

 

Plus any potential real estate in Ukraine.

 

Sigh. We could have owned half of a nice flat in Krivoy Rog, but wife signed away her half to her brother, with whom she hasn't spoken in seven years.

 

I'm right about 215k (home, 401K, Roth) and I'm in my 40s. Didn't really start saving until my late 20s and even then it wasn't more than 3-4 percent until early 30s. Big mistake, obviously.

Hoping to double or triple that by the time I'm 65. I don't plan on retiring. I'll probably croak off late 60s and still working full-time. Then my son will get the loot.

 

None of your goddamn fucking business.