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The average age of retirement in the United States is 63.
And the average length of said retirement is 18 years. Assuming you went to college and got a bachelor’s degree, congratulations! You just worked 41 years so you could not work for 18 (and those years aren’t like your first ones).
How f*cking stupid is that?
But what other options do you have? You could not work, freeload the rest of your life, and live at la casa de los padres (I know people who do this). Or you could create multiple streams of passive income and not move from your bed day in and day out. Or…you could never retire.
Why would I never want to retire?
Good question. It’s counter-intuitive to not retire and work forever until you die. (Doesn’t that sound nice?) Say, however, you don’t technically “work,” but instead wake up every day and crush your passion.
Oh no, it’s one of those inspo “follow your dreams” posts…
Before you pass this off as classic Medium motivation, I want to throw some actual wealth advice at you: With the above-mentioned philosophy, where you work for something you never want to quit doing in the future, then you…
