Retiring by 35 is very possible on programmer salaries assuming you start young with minimal debt, and avoid major financial disasters.
It comes down to questions like, am I willing to forgo ever eating out, buying expensive toys, down to AC etc. The issue for most people is extremely early retirement isn’t actually worth major sacrifices when another X years can raise your standard of living significantly.
Unfortunately, retirement isn’t that great when you don’t have money or friends to enjoy it with. The trick IMO isn’t about early retirement it’s avoiding the traps that force you into working a job you dislike.
Depends on how much you save. I'm aiming for the option of retirement at 50. For most of the world, that's a very early retirement age. Anything before 65 can essentially be considered early retirement. You don't need to be 35 to call it early retirement.
Depends really on how high the salary is. I think you have to work out what is important to you, and what in one's life is just gratuitious consumption and can thus be eliminated.
It comes down to questions like, am I willing to forgo ever eating out, buying expensive toys, down to AC etc. The issue for most people is extremely early retirement isn’t actually worth major sacrifices when another X years can raise your standard of living significantly.
Unfortunately, retirement isn’t that great when you don’t have money or friends to enjoy it with. The trick IMO isn’t about early retirement it’s avoiding the traps that force you into working a job you dislike.