[blackrock]

This is easy. Just find a job that pays you $350,000 a year.

[stouset]

I mean, the goal is to retire in ten years starting from scratch. And that number is assuming you want to have a reliable $80k/yr income without ever depleting your principal.

If it only took the median income, everyone you know would be retired at 35.

The guy asked a question and it was answered. Retiring from nothing in ten years is hard. Retiring from nothing in ten years with an above-median retirement income is even harder. Is that supposed to be surprising?

I’m all ears for your better plan.

[divtiwari]

Just get a job as a SDE in Netflix or Renaissance Technologies. /s

[sdevonoes]

That's is easy (just spend 4 months memorizing algorithms and hack the tech interview). The problem is to keep working on that kind of job for 10 years (after a few months they would realise that the only reason you passed the tech interview is because you memorized algorithms... then you would get FIREd).

[blackrock]

How many golf balls can you fit into a Boeing 747?

And somehow, this question is related to engineering world class software systems. I’m still trying to figure out how.

[blackrock]

LOL. Not a problem. If only you could’ve predicted the future, 20 years ago, that Netflix would’ve paid their software engineers $350,000 a year.

Back then, Netflix was just some silly DVD rental business.

Then, you could’ve studied and did whatever you could to land such a job with them.