What is your job?

curious to know how many low income savers are in the community vs typical FIRE jobs like software engineers

9 points · 16 comments · view on lemmy.world

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I'm a mechanical engineer in a VLCOL area, I make ~80k, but manage a 60% SR very comfortably.

fart@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

i feel like lemmy specifically is going to be even more engineer focused than reddit's FIRE community

Do you think this because of the unpolished UI or some other reason?

My wife is a licensed professional counselor (therapist) in private practice. $160k/yr. I’m a SAHD. We’re in our mid-30’s.

Workforce forecasting.

I'm the information security officer and head of technical operations for an insuretech startup.

Great work and six-figure pay but nowhere near where I need to be to reach comfortable early retirement.

Corporate accountant - got my CPA, so that helped accelerate my career

The second one. :P Going for FatFIRE.

I work in product for a non FAANG tech company.

Salary wise, definitely not low income but also not six figures like many of the techies we see in the FIRE forums.

I'm in financial analysis also have my CPA.

Don't earn as much as SWE but not bad. Six fig in a VHCOL area though.

lps2@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y

ERP software solutioning / presales, so the typical crowd

Software Engineer here - also curious. Let me see if my reply can perform a little necromancy :D

Production Operator in a manufacturing plant. I make less than 100k a year. Slowly but steady i see all my investments growing

I retired last year at age 49. I was a lab tech, and I earned about 70k.

Advanced degree healthcare

Definitely not a low income saver. I’m a tech manager in the trading industry. Basically a SWE with more responsibilities.

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