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All my friends are having fucking kids right now. Literally 4 of them popped out babies this year.

I had my first at age 23 before my divorce and only have 12-13 more years of child support left until I'm free. I got a vasectomy at age 25. I feel like it was the best financial decision of my life. I'm now 29 and have a net worth of +29k (all assets-all liabilities) with a comfy engineering job.

I feel like I have a chance of making it by age 40. Got a 60k crypto stack, a decent house on a mortgage and only 30k student loans).

I got all the mistakes out of the way when I was in my 20's (marriage, divorce, kids) and now my life is finally starting. I will never again fall for the marriage and kids meme and am sad to see my friends following the route I did that will inevitably lead to an expensive divorce later in life.

In this moment, I am euphoric