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Sees initial salary in 2009 (peak recession) was $100,000

Sees last salary was $625,000

Chuckles and closes the article about achieving financial independence

The article gives some general advice on how to manage your personal wealth. Probably the exact figures could have been expressed as percentage increases to give the article more appeal. However, for budding engineers in the early stage of their career it gives some idea of what is potentially achievable (in US).

Like what? That you can save ton when you earn 500-600k to have few millions in your net worth? Okay, but where is anything new in the article.

If anything, some of the advice doesn't make any sense. Like, saving extremely on the low income. Whatever he has saved in the first six years of his career would be offset by just working one year more.

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