This is a political post, kind of. At first I thought I would just be able to handle the change of political climate and I didn’t realize that I had to physically and emotionally process the election, physically by getting pneumonia and staying at home, emotionally by crying over every small thing like women’s rights being trampled and having a harder road ahead, and by not being able to travel to North Korea (looks like that one is still possible).
Anyways I am / my family is doing well financially right now at least.
Liquid net worth (investment accounts, retirement accounts, investment real estate) is worth 630k CHF, with my income the highest it's ever been at 182,000 CHF post tax. (higher before the exchange rate calculations I guess). Overall things are going great. In 5 years I'll have probably 1M in retirement accounts which will be enough to live.
At home things are also going well with family - two kids are thriving, husband is doing well at work, I'm surviving (barely). But trying to stay positive and realizing that being positive is the only way to keep going.
Two possibilities at this point are: 1) trying to shift into pharma; or 2) doubling down and trying to keep going in my sinking industry and get to the point of having a steady income and steady retirement. I don't really know what would make more sense at this point. One or two more years in my current job at least, as long as I am able to do so.
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