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How I’m Planning My Retirement at 22 Years Old
FIRE at 40 Starts at 22
Life gives you three paths before you:
- Be born rich,
- Become rich,
- Stay poor.
I was born into a middle-class family, and one day everything turned upside down and went downhill.
Everything was going great; my father was the sole breadwinner. Then, on a random day, my mom got a phone call from his hospital — he was gone. I was ten years old back then.
I thought money was never an issue, and that thought was utterly wrong. Only when you reach a situation where you don’t have money do you realise Rachael was right!
So, once I reached an age where I could stand on my own and work hard to lift my family up, I started planning my retirement even before my career began.
I’m sharing this because I want to be accountable, and Medium is the best place to do that.
When people think of retirement, they picture a fat pile of independence where they never work again. That’s not true for me.