r/brag

- I graduated early with my masters at 21.
- celebrated my 3 year anniversary this past August
- I’ve been working in my industry for less then a year and make 97k total comp
- I managed to pay off my students loans in August. 8 months after I started working
- By the end of the year I’ll have around 45k invested in the market
- Next year I will give my parents 20k for helping me in college and helping me study abroad for a semester
- next year I’ll have bought a car and get to around 10-20k in my emergency fund
- next year I’m going to hit 100k net worth
- I’m in great shape I workout. Around Jan-Feb will be the leanest I have ever been around 10-12 percent body fat

My birthday was over the weekend btw so I’m only a few days into being 23 as well 😂🙏

I am bragging because I have the comfort to keep failing till something sticks. My household expenses are low (2.8k monthly), my job is so flexible, I have a year salary in savings and my networth without a house included is 10x my salary. Being able to put myself in a privileged position to fail without consequences is the flex. I truly think this venture will be the one that will let me quit my job so I can work for myself but we will see if I get the results I want.

I'm 26 and have a net worth of around £140k.

Roughly £40k was built through my own work, saving and investing, while £100k came from a gift from my parents after they sold their business.

I know some people will say that's mostly luck, and I don't disagree. I was fortunate to be born into a family that was able to help me financially. At the same time, my parents took risks, ran a business for years, and created that wealth in the first place.

This got me wondering what people in the UK actually consider a "success story."

If someone comes from an ordinary background, studies, gets a professional job, saves diligently, receives support from family, and reaches a six-figure net worth in their mid-20s, does that count as success? Or does a success story only count if everything was self-made?

My view is that Britain has always been a mix of:

• Hard work
• Family support
• Good decisions
• Luck

Very few people get to a strong financial position through just one of those.

Interested to hear people's thoughts.

I just turned 32. When I was 12, I went to South Africa to visit family. When I got back home, I was sick for a few weeks. Didn't think much of it. But in the year after that, I kept being sick regularly. Until a few years later, I was sick for 6 months. I went to every hospital in my country, and eventually found out I had contracted a virus in South Africa. I received medicine and recovered. But it inspired me to focus more on my health, so I would never get sick again.

I started eating more salads & green smoothies but I hated it. It was way less appealing than the unhealthy alternatives. So I really struggled with maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Until I found people on Instagram that were making colorful smoothie bowls. These looked so much better. I tried them, and loved it.

In the next few years, I got better and better at making these. So I started sharing them on social media. Nobody cared though. I was at just one hundred views every single photo or video I uploaded for years. Until after a while, I found a new format in which I added superfoods to smoothies. These videos quickly got millions of views, and hundreds of thousands of followers.

Suddenly, I was a content creator. In the next few years, this led to over 4 million followers, 3 billion views across platforms and even a Youtube channel with almost 2 million subscribers. I worked with brands like Microsoft, The LEGO Group and became a full-time content creator.

As a guy from a small city in the Netherlands, I now get to travel the world with my blender to make smoothie videos, which is a dream come true.

Moral of the story: if you're going through a tough time right now, try to stay positive. You never know how it may positively impact your life later.

Only realized now how impressive this is. I did 9 rounds with my gf over like 7 hours (we watched a movie). I’m used to 7 rounds but saying it out loud sounds crazy.

I would only go one round with her at the start of our relationship and only started doing more after she made a comment on how I only go one round this one time.

After 3 months of non stop rigorous preparation finally landed my first job after college. I am really so happy about it. Will be starting from December.

I’ve had constipation and other issues for just about 10 years. Since 2016.

A diagnosis and thyroid meds helped tremendously.

Today for the first time in my life. I pooped 3 times in one day. Not diarrhea, just regular poop.

Feeling empty and good right now.

After 20 years of being a pot head and the last 4 being an alcoholic, I finally did it! Feeling pretty good about it.

I designed the business logic, rules, and financial-model framework that is becoming the foundation for a budget-tracking platform supporting a multi million dollar real-property portfolio.