Don't Wait
As an "older American", I am used to giving sage advise to the younger generations. I'm a flight instructor as well, and I get these kids with "shiny jet syndrome" wanting to learn to fly so they can ...
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Social Security was never meant to be a retirement plan, just a stop gap floor to prevent total loss of income in retirement. Too many people planned on it to be their entire retirement and are now realizing it won't work.
I say you must balance your "wait and "don't wait" needs. Buy what you need not always the best or just because you want. Do what is needed to be able to prepare for the future but don't be so focused on the future that you miss the present.
Too many of my friends or colleagues have many regrets playing it too safe and missed opportunities.
Do what you can to live like the following:
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” - Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
I say you must balance your "wait and "don't wait" needs. Buy what you need not always the best or just because you want. Do what is needed to be able to prepare for the future but don't be so focused on the future that you miss the present.
Too many of my friends or colleagues have many regrets playing it too safe and missed opportunities.
Do what you can to live like the following:
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” - Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
