. Every day started the same way for her: with a cup of coffee and the morning paper. She'd do the crossword puzzles before cleaning the house, doing the laundry, and making dinner. She retired from her secretarial career a few years before I was even born, yet she never wavered in her daily round-the-house race. She seemed content.I knew I wanted to write from when I was a kid, and even now I can't imagine leaving it behind.
, I thought they weren't very applicable to me since I didn't want to retire anyway. I discounted the whole thing — wrongly. So, a few weeks ago, at 24, it finally hit me that maybe I had it all wrong. I'd started putting a tiny amount into a 401 when I got hired at Business Inisder, but thanks to Stanley's book, I ended up nearly doubling my 401 contribution.
The average age of the people Stanley interviewed for "The Millionaire Next Door" was 50-something. Many of them were still working — doing the things they loved, running businesses, or using their skills in other ways. I was surprised that the interviews in the book didn't describe retirement in the way I used to think about it.
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