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Now in my late 30s having been sorta "retired" for 15 years is an interesting spot.
I can't say it was terribly difficult, but I did have to do some budgeting in my 20s. The biggest contributing factor was paying cash for a home/car and not running up credit card debt that I wasn't using to actually make money or have sitting at 0%. Consumerism and materialism is also a big one that anyone looking to do the same will have to get a grasp on as SOON as possible.
I knew from my teens that the structure of working a day after day, year after year, decade after decade job was NOT for me. I didn't like the idea of bosses or having no to sell myself as good enough. That was my ultimate motivation.
Is this the return of the poster Eddie Haskell aka as many other names that repeatedly got banned and even built a fake website to back up his claims. Lol.
Congratulations, you must've bought bitcoin when it was $1.
That or he/she inherited enough money or is a trust fund baby. My niece and her husband live in a very high cost of living city on the west coast but neither have worked much. Turns out he has a trust fund.
Now in my late 30s having been sorta "retired" for 15 years is an interesting spot.
I can't say it was terribly difficult, but I did have to do some budgeting in my 20s. The biggest contributing factor was paying cash for a home/car and not running up credit card debt that I wasn't using to actually make money or have sitting at 0%. Consumerism and materialism is also a big one that anyone looking to do the same will have to get a grasp on as SOON as possible.
I knew from my teens that the structure of working a day after day, year after year, decade after decade job was NOT for me. I didn't like the idea of bosses or having no to sell myself as good enough. That was my ultimate motivation.
Here you are in your thirties, and you think that you've made it. Well wake up! Starting in your late fifties you are going to encounter expenses and medical bills that you will never expect.
Back in the sixties $500 a week was considered a good buck. Around here that's what they pay illegal immigrants for manual labor. Do you see how it works?
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