True Story: How One Man Retired by Age 30
True Story: How One Man Retired by Age 30
This story originally appeared on NewRetirement.
Jacob Lund Fisker is not your typical retiree. He’s certainly not at an age where he could collect Social Security. He’s not in his 60s or his 50s. Jacob isn’t even in his 40s (at least not yet).
It’s almost astonishing that Jacob is retired and financially independent and he is still in his 30s. How did he do it?
First, Jacob isn’t a trust fund baby. He’s thrifty in the extreme. This doesn’t mean buying a used car instead of new. This means saving 75 percent or more of his income from a very early age and not being a consumerist.