r/brag

EEEEK IM SO HAPPY!

This probs doesnt sound like alot to some adults but I'm a 15yr old and with the help of my casual job and my mum I've got £1977 in Savings!!!! I'm hoping to break the £2000 threshold soon!!

I went through hell at my last behavioral health job, not even exaggerating, a patient tried and almost gouged my eye out lol. Anyways, I found a residential house that needed an overnight staff to be with clients. I literally just pop my head in to check on them every 15 minutes and I study in between. If they need meds, I'll grab them. If they're experiencing symptoms, I talk them through it. That doesn't even happen often either considering they're all asleep throughout the night a majority of the time. I also get paid $7 more than what I was getting paid at my last job and deal with way less. It's the perfect job as well since I'm in school, it makes it easy to get studying and homework done. I think I deserve it considering the abuse I went through for the past 5 years at my last job. It's such a breath of fresh air.

A few months ago, I managed to buy my own home on one income in one of the most expensive places on Earth. And I did it all on my own starting from nothing. That is probably my biggest achievement to date.

In early 2019 I got my first living wage job, making just enough to live independently. I moved into a shitty, roach-infested, 1 bedroom 1920s apt with no AC. It was awful and nearly broke my sanity until I moved out into a slightly better and non-infested apt after 1 year. I lived in the 2nd apt for about 4 years and saved as much money as I could while learning financial literacy, working hard at my job, and going back to school for my master’s degree. I got promoted based on merit and my new degree into a position that paid much better. Now I’m making more than double what I did in 2019. My new income, plus my savings, and a little luck, allowed me to buy my first home in a market where the average home is north of $1 million.

How did I do it? For some inexplicable reason, when I set my mind to something, I’m relentlessly determined to achieve it. No matter how much pain, stress, and other hurdles I face, I refuse to give up. Then once I was in the right position to buy, the stars aligned for me and it happened.

Determination is a super power. My story is a case study of this. If you truly want something, the only thing holding you back is yourself.

minor brag

I am 35 years old and single. I am a registered nurse.

Luckily I do have 1.4 million in net worth. All liquid aassets. I did well with my investment. My income didnt contribute to it very much.

I quit my nursing job that pays 32 dollars per hour about 3 months ago for some personal reasons. I have been in between jobs for 3 months.

I am just happy not working now..i didn't like forcing myself to go to sleep early when I didnt feel sleepy for work the next day. I hated waking up early for my work when i wanted to sleep more. I didnt like dealing with rude coworkers or patients and pretending being nice and cool. I just didn't like living my life around my work.

I am so happy now.

I go to gym for work out and I run and take a walk every day. I read books and study Spanish. And i meet up with friends and family.

I dont spend much money. Only less than 2000 dollars per month including utilities.. my net worth has grown since I quit my job.

I have been hunting for jobs ever since. I got job offers 3 times but declined them all of them. Because I didnt want to get into daily grinds of spending my pricelss life and time at work and around my work...

My friends and family dont know I have money. So I just tell them I am in between jobs... i might eventually find a job of my cup of tea and start working.. but I might not do so..i might not get back into the workforce for a while.. maybe forever.

I dont know where my life is going but I am so happy.

I hope i can get to 1.5 million dollar by the end of this year so I can just retire early.

Been on Wegovy since March, have lost around 14 kg (31 lbs). Went on a family vacation for 2 weeks and didn't get the prescription filled on time so I went for about 10 days without any shot at all. Some places did not have any healthy options, and I had to have burgers a few times. I was super careful and tried to eat healthy whenever I could so the bad times would be OK. I just got back today and.... drumroll please... I lost just over 1 kg! It's less than I generally lose over 2 weeks (I stayed on the 1 since it works well for me) but not gaining weight when most of the trip i had no Wegovy left in my system was good in and of itself, but I even lost. Most days I hit maybe 8000 steps so it isn't that we walked so much that it canceled it out. So happy!!!

What’s something you’re really proud of about yourself that you wish more people praised you or appreciated you for? I’ll go first, I worked really hard in my academic life and got my masters in nursing with a 4.0 gpa by 22. I feel like so many of my family members overlook this accomplishment and instead ask me “why not become a doctor” but who cares I got that degree for me not for them and I’m proud of myself.

Finished school with 270k in student loans. Making great money now so wanted to aggressively pay them off to just be done with it. Pretty excited to have no debt now.

Edit: paid off*

Finally reached my one month mark and I realized I stopped receiving those “too new to post” notifications 🎉

I have a work trip that I'm going on and although it's a great opportunity and the work trip involves what I've been working towards my entire life, I'm sad to be leaving my 3 year old son and wife at home while I'm gone for a week.

What I mostly want to brag about is that my son asked my wife if they can go to the store and get snacks for me so we can have a movie night. (He obviously used this opportunity to his advantage and picked everything he wanted saying "mom, I think Dad would really like these")

Then he requested to watch a movie that was obviously for him. He was so excited to show me all the snacks and I thanked him and have him a hug.

He told me I'm his best friend and he's going to miss me while I'm gone.

Having that little guy as my best friend is better than all the achievements I've ever gotten through my work.

This was from 2015 - 2021

Got a job in construction, but in a different city. Moved for the job but rent in the new city was high, so I lived in my vehicle and had a Y membership so that I'd have a place to shower. Nobody I worked with knew I was homeless, but I was saving mad cash as I had almost zero expenses.

The highest earning people on our construction sites were the mechanics who fixed the heavy equipment, so I watched, helped, and learned as much as I could from them until I could get a job being one. Spent most of the money I was saving on rent to buy tools.

Once I got a mechanic job, I was constantly in a panic to figure out what was wrong with things and how to fix them before my bosses figured out that I didn't know what I was doing. Visible enthusiasm goes a long way towards distracting people from your other shortcomings. Confirmation bias is real, and if you can get people to like you, they'll focus on your successes and dismiss your failures as flukes. When I started, I literally didn't know where to find the engine in an excavator. That's how little I knew. I was binge watching Big Fix Alaska at night trying to learn how to do my job. Over the next couple of years, I did learn, and I got pretty good at it. Specifically, I got good at figuring out what I didn't know.

By the time covid hit, I had some money saved up. For me, and all of the other essential workers I knew, nothing had really changed. We were still going to work as normal, etc. so I didn't think the world was really ending. So, when the stock market crashed, I bought a 3x leveraged s&p500 etf. I figured if I was wrong, and civilization really did end, money wouldn't matter anyway, but if it recovered, I'd make a lot of money... and that's what happened.

Fast forward to today, I'm still fixing heavy equipment, still working 60+ hrs a week. I'm now far more conservatively invested, but anticipate that in about another year, I'll have enough saved to live off of the dividends, though I'll probably work a while longer to have money for fun stuff beyond just the essentials.

yeah pretty much the title. in June I made 43k split pretty evenly between my job and my side business. my ex wife surprised me with a divorce last year and I through myself into healing. a big need I had was for financial security so here we are. I don’t want to tell my friends or family.

I was raised by very insecure parents (at the time, their anxiety and depression were undiagnosed). They believed everyone hated them and they were a downer everywhere they went. Then they kind of projected this on us. They told me no one would ever be able to stand me, and if someone seemed to like me, they were just pretending because they're nice. That really messed me up for a long time. I did manage to get married and start a family, which has been wonderful, but that was about it for me until my 30s.

When my oldest child started kindergarten, I was so uncomfortable around people that I would wait way out by the flagpole at pickup. God forbid someone talked to me. I saw the circles of people and part of me wanted to join, but I was afraid and didn't know how.

By first grade I noticed my daughter was acting just like me socially, withdrawing from everything and saying she didn't want to play with other kids, so I immediately said we were each going to make a social goal each year and support each other in achieving it. This has gone really well, and at age nine she now has a best-best-BFF within an overall circle of friends she's known for years, and I'm in the group chats, I'm in the "fun parents" circle that goes out to karaoke, I'm invited to everything, I even sometimes throw a little party and everyone comes (we had the cutest holiday cookies and crafts thing last December). I have a reputation for being artistic and crafty, and I'm often pulled into projects. I also have a reputation for being good with kids (kids didn't intimidate me even at my worst level of social functioning, they're so straightforward and sweet), so now I'm a frequent volunteer at the school.

This week's social schedule so far is:

* Monday: playdate with daughter's bestie and her mom (we are also good friends)

* Wednesday: playdate with same bestie plus other good friend plus middle child's twin classmates

* Today: sudden impromptu get together at the park to ride bikes

* Friday: backyard movie for the kids at aforementioned twins' house, parent party inside

* Saturday: cookout with friends after the parade

* Sunday: opening day of a weekly multigenerational craft circle at a friend's house (I'm making a gigantic crochet orca for my middle girl's birthday in one week, so I NEED this time!!)

Next week is a whole other schedule. Next Saturday a bunch of friends are taking me out for my birthday 😭❤️ I was always secretly good at karaoke, but never sang in public. Now people know about it and always want me to go with them! I feel like I actually have the confidence to even say there are things that I'm good at.

And I never, ever, EVER stay up late going over everything I said or did wondering if I messed up somewhere! I just go hang out with people, have fun, and go home all tired and happy!

I never thought I would be this person, ever. I am so excited for all the stuff we have coming up!

Started using Zyns approximately four years ago for the “cognitive boost”. This quickly turned into about a pack (not sure what it’s really called) per day. Two weeks ago was my first full day of not using a single Zyn in about four years, and haven’t had one since. I was really good at hiding it, had a couple close calls but nobody in my life knew about my addiction so I wanted to brag here.

Okay so I’m very new to sales I just got my first job for a company call bright side windows , so they offer a $600 base pay and 12% commission rate , I also got another offer from a roofing company and they offer $750 paid training for a month then after that commission only but they have a 40% commission rate , so now I’m just thinking if I should risk it or accept the window job which is safer , but then again I have a side job that’s pays me $600 every week , which i can use for my bills just Incase , cause my bills ain’t high i have roommates, so what do you guys think should i risk for the higher commission or stay with the safer guys