Comments on: Poll: What Is Your Number?

By: What is your Number?- 7million7years

What is your Number?- 7million7years — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:06:44 +0000

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By: Are you saving enough for retirement?- 7million7years

Are you saving enough for retirement?- 7million7years — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:49:50 +0000

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By: Mike Hunt

Mike Hunt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:32:28 +0000

AJC,

I found an interesting link / study from 2001:

http://www.goodmoneyblog.com/archives/2008/06/how-far-are-you-from-being-rich/#

You are below 49 right, so even at a $4M net worth that puts you up in the median top 1% net worth for your age… of course this jumps up to 9M once you hit 50… so I guess you are right there.

At age 36, I’m basically in the top 1% for my age group… need to do a lot of work to keep that in my 40′s.

So my number is about 10M, as taken from this chart. If I keep working and stay on track should be no problem to achieve.

-Mike

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:03:12 +0000

@ Kohti – That’s about $750,000 in US dollars … I didn’t think to state the currency on the poll, d’oh! Thanks for your comment.

@ Josh – A very thoughtful and honest comment … and you are right on the ‘money’; this site might help you find your Life’s Purpose:

http://shareyournumber.com/

By: Kohti taloudellista riippumattomuutta

Kohti taloudellista riippumattomuutta — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:02:17 +0000

500.000€ (about 810.000 Australian dollars) in 10 years is my goal.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:17:24 +0000

Adrian,
there is no tab for ‘I don’t know my number yet’. I am working on what I want to do with life and without those answers, how can you put a price on it? I could tell you my figure once I feel ‘secure’ but that is very low and not related to my ultimate goal.

Josh

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:55:41 +0000

$10 million in 10 years is the goal!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:17 +0000

@ Trainee – LOL. Yes there is, indeed, madness to my method … but, I promise: there are NO tricks, here. I am genuinely interested to see what the general consensus on Number/Date is amongst our Reader Community.

Thanks for voting … and commenting!

By: traineeinvestor

traineeinvestor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:49:09 +0000

And a question – the order on both polls is not sequential. I fully expect to be awake all night trying to figure out whether this is really a cover from some experiment in behavioural finance.