Once you're a comfy old boomer, how do you plan to spend your free time, and how are you saving money to make sure this can be a reality?
>want to live in a comfy high-rise apartment with a guest room for my kids to come visit >want to spend my tending to my indoor plants, playing video games, and coding small utilities and games >saving money by letting my auto lease expire and not getting a new car
I want a big house with a gym and a workshop to build cool stuff. Only one story so boomerbros don't have to walk up stairs. I save about 40% of my income. Sometimes more.
by the time I'm a boomer, I'll have a pair of bionic knees to be able to do all this stuff that I do now, and skiers have great bone density in the first place.
Ethan Murphy
Few things are comfier than snow. Do you plan to buy a cabin somewhere?
Ideally, perhaps somewhere near Alta, although if current trends continue, I need to be buying somewhere near either revelstoke or whistler. My real goal is to make enough money through being an investment banker/wealth advisor to become a part owner or own enough stock at mica or some similar heli skiing place to just be able to use it for free whenever I want when I'm older. For now, I'm content to be a working college student in SLC
Eli Fisher
Lofty goals. I wish you the best of luck, friendo. I never felt I had a chance in the finance sector, so I went into software development.
I don't plan on doing anything with the actual numbers, I just have the people skills. Right now I work as a banker and after 6 months in that position my numbers are better than anyone else in my region, which is all I can see to measure against, and it's not because I hard sell things, I just talk to people about their finances, explain what I can do with my knowledge of our bank's products versus some other banks products. I know what kinds of competing products other banks offer, and encourage people to do their own research. If someone tells me another bank has a better offer, I just tell them this is what we can do, and if they have something better, feel free to go with them on that product. As a result, people trust me since they know I'm not always trying to sell them something, more just trying to show them the options we have and why it would benefit them. I also know our regional wealth advisor pretty personally since I've sent him some huge clients (there was a guy who invested about 50 million with us who I had gotten to know very well before recommending a meeting with our guy and a few others in the 20 mm range), so once I finish college in 2 years, I think I have a pretty good shot at a position like that either with my bank or with another bank. I live frugally, don't have a family yet, and don't plan on having one till around 30-35 so I think it's fairly reasonable. The hardest part of all this for me is honestly just balancing work, school, and my ski addiction.