It's quite likely that the idea of this post comes more than anything from my youth. The entire idea of working for a company for a number of years then hoping that your investments panned out enough that at the ripe old age of 65 you can finally stopping working and leave the dream of hobbling around to foreign countries or sitting day after day in Florida seems well, shitty. Does someone really want to spend the years of their life, of which they are the healthiest and most virile, couped up in an office all day plugged numbers into a machine, in the hopes that one day they will have worked hard enough and long enough to never have to do it again? I'm not into it.
Instead what if the early part of your life was the part you could enjoy, the part where you could do whatever the hell you wanted: Travel the globe, Drink the world, Eat the Earth its all fair game when you are young. After many graduations people like to tell you that the world is your oyster, so whose idea of a pearl is sitting behind a desk? Personally not mine.
"The times they are a changing" People live so much longer these days, and are healthy for longer, so the idea of having to knock out a solid job for the early part of your life, than live off the fruits of your investment for a few years after retirement just doesn't add up. The numbers don't work for the people living to 90+ (luckily I won't have to worry about that with my motto of in vino veritas) so they are stuck hoping for help from the government or worrying about using their kids as a backup.
All this is to say, enjoy your youth while you have it because it will not last forever, and when it ends, there is no going back. You can work till you're 80 but you sure as hell can't hike Machu Pichu or surf in Australia...
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