After 20 years with my firm (a big Financial Institution) I told them that they can "shove it" with their vax mandate and I'm retiring effective Dec 31. My boss thinks I'm nuts and he spent the rest of the day trying to pull me back into the Matrix by "enticing" me to stay. Didn't work. I told him that i can no longer work for a company that is taking a tyrannical approach to these vaccines and that those in management who chose to enforce these "mandates" chose poorly and will end up on the wrong side of history.(I believe that resonated with my boss but in the end, he still thinks I'm nuts!). Now that I have no job I plan on becoming a full time red-piller...wish me luck!
A good by product of this is that I have much greater control of my 401k after I leave the firm. Thinking of moving a portion to a precious metals IRA - any thoughts on that? Any other suggestions?
"Self-directed" doesn't really mean anything. It just means you can decide what to invest in ... as long as the custodian agrees (which they won't, if they are the big name guys).
Let's say Corporation X wants to set up a 401k for employees. They get calls from Fidelity, Vanguard, and many others because they want the business.
Corp X goes with Fidelity. Now, Fidelity will be the custodian for ALL 401k accounts for that company's employees. As an employee of Corp X, you have a 401k account that Fidelity is custodian of, and you can ONLY invest in what Fidelity approves -- which just so happens to be things the Fidelity can make commissions on. You want to buy gold coins? Good luck! Fidelity will say no. Not because it is illegal or a bad investment, but because Fidelity can't make commissions on that, and since they are the custodian, they get to call the shots.
But you can change that. A better solution, ESPECIALLY when you are no longer working for that company, is to set up your own 401k with an independent custodian (that will let you invest in anything you want, as long as it is not prohibited by Section 401 and accompanying statutes/regs of the tax law), and YOU control what you invest in.
You can buy gold, bitcoin, stocks, mutual funds, real estate, oil wells, whatever you want.
I posted how to do it in this thread, but that post has mysteriously disappeard. If you are interested, I can do it again.