Warning, this is a rant.
I'm sick of working this way so of course on TikTok there's always something. Recently I've gotten a lot of content on how to “grow your money” to save for retirement. And it's coming from the mouths of 26-30 year olds who already make 6 figures.
So of course my question is how to get where they are, right? But no, they tell you to save for retirement and grow your money in a 10-15 year, I've even heard up to a 35 year time span.
Like.. don't shit on my floor and call it decoration, bro. You know exactly what information I want. How to get like YOU. Then I remember that they probably have rich parents, but I digress.
However they talk in circles and don't give you specifics because of course you have to pay money for information, money you don't have in the first place.
Like yes I'm playing a losing game right now and I'd like to not have to do this.
This may be juvenile of me but I've NEVER understood the point of saving for retirement, and I don't think I ever will.
Like yes, let me save up to enjoy the times of my life where I can be comfortable.. but my joints don't work by 65 so that plane ride to Bali is gonna be real uncomfortable.
I wanna not struggle NOW, and people will really think I'm ridiculous for thinking that.
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being surrounded by people who make a lot more than me, meanwhile I'm struggling, just got off food stamps, not even hitting 30,000 a year and working for a company who, if I quit today, they'd deactivate my computer at 5pm and no later.
It's not even like I wanna do nothing. I have things I wanna do, dreams, a business I wanna start. But like me and so many others, it's unnatainable without the one currency I hate to love: money.
TL:DR this sucks and I'm tired and I'm only 19.