I’m the proud owner of 362 shares of Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund
My transaction is complete and I am now invested with Vanguard. So it didn’t take that long at all, nowhere near the November date Vanguard warned me it could take up to. I now have a little over 362 shares of Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund. So now you know approximately how old I am and how much money I’m worth. Too old and not much. But at least it is only 2007. 
I’m proud of my investment. I did research, I weighed options, I thought carefully, and I acted. Nothing like when I first opened this Roth IRA in grad school. Then I just knew I should be saving for retirement so I went to the first financial planner that mailed me an ad. Direct mail worked for someone! And seriously, I knew more than that planner did and that’s not a good thing ;). But she took my money and invested it in what I chose from the options she gave me, and it has done okay. That little company was bought by a bigger company that was eventually bought by Wachovia and a few years of horrid customer service later, here we are. Bye bye Wachovia! I don’t miss you already.
~J
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