Hello, until a few years ago, I was a school teacher, but switched careers and went into software. I was hired at a startup for a good salary, and some shares. I stopped working for them a few months ago to go on a motorcycle adventure. Back in March the value of the shares was around $75K, but the company has done well since then. Last week I received 1/3 of the shares I was promised, and sold 80% of that for around $150K. I'm thinking of buying real estate in Maine and starting a pot farm, but I'm open to other ideas.
The share price is volatile, and they might try to screw me (they thought they were giving me a lot less money then they did, due to the rise in price), so I'm not counting on the remaining 2/3 of my shares at this time, although there is about a 60-75% chance I will have closer to $450K. But I'm not going to count on that so I don't get upset if it doesn't happen.
I have no debts and no traditional investments except around $300 of some international small cap mutual funds. My only real assets aside from the windfall ($150K + ~$30K in shares) is cryptocurrency, I invested early in BTC and diversified, so the combined market value on those is around $20K, although I'm not really keen tapping into that, would rather keep it long term, and will probably put at least a small amount of the windfall into that.
This obviously is one of the most "first-world" problems ever, but I want to make sure I don't piss it all away. Please help me make my small fortune grow!
Submitted September 03, 2017 at 09:01AM by whatathrowaway4 http://ift.tt/2x2A8N8
