I wasn't expecting this to be my first diary, but I got a wild hair and figured maybe I had something to say here that would justify one. This has been inspired partly by various recent threads on Daily Kos and elsewhere in the "left" blogosphere. Still, it's been something that (like many of you) I've been thinking about for a while now.
Some background: I live in Atlanta, my hometown, and work a good, pretty-well-paying "entry-level" tech job at a Fortune 500 company that has given this country a United States Senator (a Democrat, mind you). That should be enough information for some of you out there to deduce exactly which company I'm talking about.
I have a 401 (k) plan from both my current job and my previous job, from which I was laid off three years and small change ago (though I really need to track down exactly where that account is now!). I haven't exactly looked at it for a while, though.
I live alone in a one-bedroom condo; I could probably afford a townhome, but I fear what might happen and I don't need the extra space (unless I have a band, in which case I need a house or a rehearsal studio). Better safe than sorry.
OK--more below the fold.
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