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I know it’s young, but I’ve definitely missed some experiences. No way to go back in time to go to that college party or on a spontaneous trip with friends.
Just doing online hustles. Started off at 12 with selling minecraft items for real money on a big custom server, then to doing regional arbitrage for games on steam (buy cheap in one region, sell high to someone in a more expensive region), and so on. With all the money I’ve made off stuff like that, I eventually moved on to trading crypto and then to stocks with some moderate success. Living with family also helped a lot, around $40k/year in savings just off that.
Granted it'd be a bit weird to go to a college party, but you're never too old for a spontaneous trip with friends! (It's not age that stops you, it's responsibilities (or lack of friends but then that becomes merely step 1)).
Also if you're 28 and have seven figures in savings that's pretty great! A very off-meta build, but I'm sure you can make it work.
of course you're never too old, but like you mentioned, responsibilities get in the way. Not on my end, I'm as free as one can be. My friends, not so much. It could be one of the reasons why I'm feeling a sense of urgency to fix my social anxiety - it will only get worse as I get older. In my college years, there was something going on every other day and I would reject almost every opportunity. Now, it takes 8 months of planning, praying, coordinating to organize a 2 week trip. I need to be able to go out of my comfort zone, meet new people and feel comfortable with spontaneity.
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