u/Western_Dream_3608

I took out a pension from the metal industries 18 months ago, it is 15% of my income. In 18 months after depositing R84,900 In contributions, the interest I earned from it was R14,500. It's now worth over R100,000. In little over a year.

I was quite happy with that, that's the highest return I have seen with my finances. I mean I was saving in a separate account about R9000 per month and that has saved R115,000 in the same amount of time, but the pension fund looks like it's gonna overtake my savings. I'm also 33 at the moment. And don't earn a huge amount, probably about R23,000 per month.

so in total I have saved R200k in 18 months from zero. but the pension earned so much of interest that in 5 years from now, I'll have over a million, and I'm not even close to retirement age. which means by the time I retire, I should be a multimillionaire.

What type of thing are you doing to grow your finances for your future? Is it working?

I still haven't gone out dressing fem. But a couple days ago, I needed a shirt and had nothing in arms reach besides a hoodie, and I wore the hoodie over my bra, but I zipped it up just to reveal the top of the bra and I caught my reflection in the mirror, and it just felt right. Like revealing the top of my chest and everything just felt like yes I could go out like this. Obviously I feel like I need to buy a crop top first but that feeling of, this feels right. I dunno maybe it's a sign I need to start being more authentically me.

On a side note a weird thing happened over the past week, two women did some strange things, first one woman said she was proud of me for being a mechanic..... And the other woman was initially walking behind me then sped up to walk alongside me and then said to me, we gotta stick together be safe in a dangerous place or something to that extent. And I'm sitting here thinking is this a common thing, this secret club called womanhood where women will just create a bond over something like walking down the street,

I feel like there is this unspoken club that is just part of the territory. Has anyone else experienced that or am I just bumping into strange people?