Originally Posted by
baseball
No wasn't directed at you. But I understood what Guppie said and it was tracking with financial info I received.
I suppose you can contribute more moneys if you have access to those funds. However, not having those funds likely precludes these types of contributions as well as catch up contributions. Many pilots now having difficulty with access to funds to put into retirement plans, etc.
Just goes to show, every 10 years this career gives us a swift kick in the nuts. Plan your financial life accordingly and it’ll all work out.
The scars of 2009 are still raw to me. It was a terrible time and motivated me to put that extra 5% in my PRAP, make that extra mortgage payment, put that extra $5,000 into my kids 529, my keep my 15 year old car running, etc etc.
Stressful times indeed, but this saying has guided my financial life:
“If you will live like no
one else, later you can
live like no one else”