From Struggle to Luxury: What It’s Really Like Loving Someone Who Hit the Jackpot Overnight
TLDR- making a lot when you come from nothing is amazing, and best shared, as long as you continue to share the same values.
We were poor for a long time about 8 years (he refused to work and argued he was better than working for someone else). So did as many jobs as possible cause I believed he could accomplish something great. We then decided to start a business together but he kept me off all the paper work.
In about a year or two he was making bank from the company that we both worked on. He didn’t have me as an employee and wasn’t paying me so I had to get a second job. Found out later he was cheating on me. I divorced him and since he didn’t add me to any business documents I couldn’t claim any of the business as mine. During the divorce found out he was paying himself over 50k a month. Money tends to make s****y people reveal themselves. Now I’m starting all over again cause I never focused on my career, I focused on keeping us alive. It sucks and is hard. .
Wife and I meet at Microsoft in 1994. We were both “paper millionaires” from stock options. Then hit it again when I worked at Google and wife worked at Amazon. Finally big increase, bitcoin. Several times with bitcoin.
As for wife and I? Still married. 26 years this October. Having more money didn’t change us much. We are big savers, still have 97% of our Microsoft/Amazon/Alphabet stock. Put all bonuses into savings/investments. 35%-40% wages go into savings/investments.
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