I keep comparing myself to my more financially successful friends. I find one of the hard things about entering your 40s is that people start to see the impacts of the life decisions they made in their 20s and 30s really start to compound, and it’s become clear that some of the people I grew up with are going to have very different lives from me, and their kids will likely have very different financial resources than mine do. Copyright ©2026 MarketWatch, Inc.
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Aditi Shrikant is a personal-finance reporter at MarketWatch who writes the Dollar Signs advice column. Previously, she was a lead reporter at CNBC's "Make It" covering relationships and psychology. Before that, she reported on consumer spending and transportation at Vox.com.
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