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Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

Should I Invest in Employer Stock Options?

Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

Ramsey Network

Careers, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Listen to how ordinary people built extraordinary wealth - and how you can too. You’ll learn how millionaires live on less than they make, avoid debt, invest, are disciplined and responsible! Featuring hosts from the Ramsey Network: Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, John Delony, and George Kamel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Ramsey everyday millionaires where we talk retirement, building wealth,

0:10.5

and outrageous generosity.

0:14.1

Jack is on the line.

0:15.4

Jack is in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:17.2

Hi, Jack, how are you?

0:18.5

Hey, how's it going, David?

0:19.5

Do you want anything to take it my call?

0:21.4

Sure.

0:22.4

What's up?

0:23.4

Yeah, so I recently had a career change.

0:25.0

In my previous employer, I invested about $7,800 privately held stock options to purchase.

0:31.4

My best of them, I was not supposed to spend their like a dollar a share.

0:34.6

Like I said, they are privately held.

0:38.3

And so yeah, I'm just looking for some advice on whether we should purchase any or not.

0:43.1

I just got married in February with my life.

0:45.9

And we don't have any debt.

0:47.5

We have about 10 grand in our emergency savings.

0:51.4

And we also have a size of an amount paid for accounting for a home, apparently renting.

0:55.8

And yeah, I just want to know what the best option would be moving forward.

1:02.1

Okay.

1:03.1

The way I answer questions on the show, Jack, after 30 years of doing this is, knowing what

1:08.6

I know, if I woke up in your shoes, what I do.

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