If you’re like me, going into the fourth decade of your life, the topic of retirement becomes as engrossing as figuring where all your rock-hard abs from your twenties have gone. In your youth, you never think you’d lose your pace, vitality and energy like those old geezers – until it hits you as well.
Similarly, financial planning and retirement hardly crossed my mind as I bundled full force into my career, making and spending money as fast as I could. It only hit me recently in the last few years that retirement, (the “r-word” I only associated with my parents and those creatively cheesy pioneer generation ads) is something that I needed to take seriously in my early thirties.
In my mitigation, the (lazy) excuse why I didn’t care more for my retirement was that there weren’t as many good and free sources of financial education ten years ago ...
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