“People expect their career journey will look different from their parents,”
“A lot of people think saving toward retirement means you don’t get to enjoy life right now,” she says. “Even though I’m aggressively saving for retirement and investing in real estate, I live a life I love.”
She sees her retirement goals as a redefining her own American dream of “having your time back and not making someone else rich.”
That might mean building her own business or passive income streams rather than working a corporate job. Plus, Hinckley adds, “I don’t want to wait to do [my hobbies] when I’m 70.”
““A lot of people think saving toward retirement means you don’t get to enjoy life right now,” she says.”
My son is 28. We encouraged him to start saving when he got his first job. That was at age 13. He now has a real estate investment property, lives on his own and travels to see friends and family all over the world. He is truly living his greatest life.