Personal Finance and Investing

My husband was promoted a few months ago as a driver trainer and given a raise. Then just recently they gave him more training and responsibilities plus another big raise. There will be a lot of changes to his job in addition to the raises. They have a lot of confidence in him because of his experience and ability to get things done. From what he told me today, they are looking at him and a select group of other drivers to help push the company forward. We found this out before learning the company was going public.

It seems like they are planning for some major growth in the company.

We're excited about it, too. His future with the company has significantly improved. That's more important to us than the potential earnings.

I just have no experience with this sort of thing. When I googled I read up on what happened with FB, Enron and UPS. Those are unique situations and I don't expect us to have those same results. For one thing, I have no intention of putting all our eggs in one basket so to speak. We have two savings accounts in addition to our checking. That's about it.

We figured we were at the very least going make sure the house was paid off by the time retirement rolled around.

Now, we're wondering if this could get us a little more if we did it. I know it's a risk, but I want to be as informed as possible before we take that step. We're not sure when it'll happen. We just know it will since the filings have already happened recently.

Thanks for the information.