This morning I woke up, did some email and had breakfast with my family.  The kids went out and played in 4 fresh inches of snow, and I went downstairs to read some product specs for work.  The specs, as usual, were boring and filled with anomalies, so I switched over to Quicken to check my monthly budget.  30 seconds later I checked my total asset balance and I learned that I’m now a millionaire.

It’s fascinating how anti-climactic and altogether meaningless this milestone turned out to be, especially considering that this was a goal I set 11.5 years ago, and worked relentlessly to achieve.

When I graduated college and took my $50K/year engineering job I immediately started saving aggressively.  I had a strict budget and a determination More >