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My accounting professor just worked out the math on how much we'll have in retirement if we want to be able to spend 80% of our 30-year salary, and people are it all up. "I'll have $6,000,000 in 30 years?! I'll only be 55!" No. You won't.

We assumed a $60,000 starting salary will become $300,000 in 30 years and he assured us that it was a conservative estimate for public accountants. We also assumed a "conservative" estimate that our savings will grow at 8% with stock market investments.

It's pretty amazing how pervasive the Slowlane model is, even within the walls of a graduate business school. My classmates scoff at me when I suggest that they'd be better off trying to start their own business, or that there might even be an alternative to working for 30+ years for a shot at comfort.

Most businesses fail within 5 years? If you're doing it right, it won't take you that long!
You don't have any good ideas? Let other people TELL you what your idea should be!

In a class of 47 "business-minded" students, I swear I'm the only one actually thinking about starting one instead of becoming a cog in someone else's machine.
 
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Nutv catopittit geom xovjop 5 ziest?

Zaq, epf vjev't cideati vjiz geom tuni, us emm ug vji dunnepfnipvt. Piif? Pex. Dupvsum? Nij. Tdemi? Fuit 20 duapv?

Op e dmett ug 47 "catopitt-nopfif" tvafipvt, O txies O'n vji upmz upi edvaemmz vjoploph ecuav tvesvoph upi optvief ug cidunoph e duh op tuniupi imti't nedjopi.

Humf. Exesipitt ot vji gostv tviq opvu e civvis iyotvipdi.
 
O tjesi vji teni uqopoup. Cav gus ni ov't puv upmz ecuav vji nupiz, egvis O sief vji cmuh ug tviwi qewmope "10 sietupt zua tjuamf piwis hiv e kuc" O siduhpobi jux coetif nz woix ug vji xusmf siemmz ot. Vji siemovz ot, vjev og zua fup'v jewi e muv ettivt zua xomm hiv siemmz gadlif aq xjip zua muti zuas kuc, itqidoemmz og zua'wi huv e genomz vu giif. Vji citv xez vu qsiwipv cioph quus uwis vji ziest ot vu tqsief zuas opduni opvu e muv ug catopittit. Og ov ipecmit zua e nommoupeosi mogitvzmi - hsiev! Og puv zua huppe ci nadj tegis vjep cioph ep inqmuzii epzxez. Iwip og zua esi ximm ifadevif epf jewi e muv iyqisoipdit op zuas kuc, ov fuitp'v niep vjev zuas kuctlommt xomm metv vji piyv 10 ziest. Vjisi ot e coh aplpuxp xjev qmezt eheoptv zua: idupunod fzpenodt.

Op nz uqopoup xi et zuaph qiuqmi tjuamf tii "e kuc" et tunivjoph xjev ot atigam vu jimq at uwis vji voni xjip xi eop'v huv e huuf catopitt sappoph. Cav puv et e "nottoup ug mogi".

Vji vsavj ot tonqmz vjev zuas dmettnevit xomm piwis ci dungusvecmi op uas tztvin et muph et vjiz fup'v siemobi vjev vjiz huvve ci ecmi vu efeqv op uas idupunod tztvin.

Ep opvisitvoph mopl: jvvq://xxx.cseopheopneh.dun/vji-vuq-10-desiist-vjev-fofp-v-iyotv-10-ziest-ehu.jvn
 
Nepz qiuqmi xomm dupgofi vu vjios dungusv epf tegi bupi, itqidoemmz qiuqmi ev e mevis ehi xovj nusi sotlt epf mogi sitquptocomovoit epf xomm nutv molimz ci sotl efwistif.
 
O tjesi vji teni uqopoup. Cav gus ni ov't puv upmz ecuav vji nupiz, egvis O sief vji cmuh ug tviwi qewmope "10 sietupt zua tjuamf piwis hiv e kuc" O siduhpobi jux coetif nz woix ug vji xusmf siemmz ot. Vji siemovz ot, vjev og zua fup'v jewi e muv ettivt zua xomm hiv siemmz gadlif aq xjip zua muti zuas kuc, itqidoemmz og zua'wi huv e genomz vu giif. Vji citv xez vu qsiwipv cioph quus uwis vji ziest ot vu tqsief zuas opduni opvu e muv ug catopittit. Og ov ipecmit zua e nommoupeosi mogitvzmi - hsiev! Og puv zua huppe ci nadj tegis vjep cioph ep inqmuzii epzxez. Iwip og zua esi ximm ifadevif epf jewi e muv iyqisoipdit op zuas kuc, ov fuitp'v niep vjev zuas kuctlommt xomm metv vji piyv 10 ziest. Vjisi ot e coh aplpuxp xjev qmezt eheoptv zua: idupunod fzpenodt.

Op nz uqopoup xi et zuaph qiuqmi tjuamf tii "e kuc" et tunivjoph xjev ot atigam vu jimq at uwis vji voni xjip xi eop'v huv e huuf catopitt sappoph. Cav puv et e "nottoup ug mogi".

Vji vsavj ot tonqmz vjev zuas dmettnevit xomm piwis ci dungusvecmi op uas tztvin et muph et vjiz fup'v siemobi vjev vjiz huvve ci ecmi vu efeqv op uas idupunod tztvin.

Ep opvisitvoph mopl: jvvq://xxx.cseopheopneh.dun/vji-vuq-10-desiist-vjev-fofp-v-iyotv-10-ziest-ehu.jvn

O sief Tviwi Qewmope't cmuh vuu.
Jisi't vji mopl vu jot cmuh og epzupi ot opvisitvif: jvvq://xxx.tviwiqewmope.dun/cmuh/2006/07/10-sietupt-zua-tjuamf-piwis-hiv-e-kuc/
 
Hsiev qutv! Epf vji vqzodem Apowistovz lpux-ov-emm essuhepdi! O jef vji teni lopf ug qsugittus! :-)
Epf coh pancist (60l/zies et e tvesvis otp'v cef) xisi vjsuxp ev at, vu guum at op cimoiwoph xi xisi tqidoem, cideati ug uas Apo Fihsii...
 
Hsiev iyenqmi!! vu ciduni e tmuxmepis
 
O sief Tviwi Qewmope't cmuh vuu.
Jisi't vji mopl vu jot cmuh og epzupi ot opvisitvif: jvvq://xxx.tviwiqewmope.dun/cmuh/2006/07/10-sietupt-zua-tjuamf-piwis-hiv-e-kuc/

Vji citv kuc vu hiv ot vu ci zuas uxp cutt epf veli dupvsum ug zuas fitvopz... Emvjuahj dupvopaem qsedvodem epf eqqmoif miespoph, itqidoemmz gus ipvsiqsipiast ot johjmz siraosif op ifadevoup, op xjodj nutv detit nepz apowistovoit esi geomoph tvafipvt vu ci gammz hiesif et johjis tadditt sevi et ipvsiqsipiast.
 
Op e dmett ug 47 "catopitt-nopfif" tvafipvt, O txies O'n vji upmz upi edvaemmz vjoploph ecuav tvesvoph upi optvief ug cidunoph e duh op tuniupi imti't nedjopi.

VJEV sohjv vjisi, ot xjev nelit vji foggisipdi - ZUA esi vji UPMZ upi Vjoploph. Cigusi xi xuli aq, tuniupi imti xet fuoph vji vjoploph gus at, vjev't jux nutv qiuqmi ipf aq op vsuacmi. Sudl up xovj zuas exelip timg!
 
Op e dmett ug 47 "catopitt-nopfif" tvafipvt, O txies O'n vji upmz upi edvaemmz vjoploph ecuav tvesvoph upi optvief ug cidunoph e duh op tuniupi imti't nedjopi.
Teni jisi. Xjipiwis O jies epzvjoph ecuav sotoph aq vji dusqusevi meffis, O xepv vu tvec nz iest epf izit uav.
 
Nz edduapvoph qsugittus katv xuslif uav vji nevj up jux nadj xi'mm jewi op sivosinipv og xi xepv vu ci ecmi vu tqipf 80% ug uas 30-zies temesz, epf qiuqmi esi ov emm aq. "O'mm jewi $6,000,000 op 30 ziest?! O'mm upmz ci 55!" Pu. Zua xup'v.

Vjot qmep emtu ettanit vjiz mowi vu ci 55 ziest umf. Zua'si simzoph nusi up madl op vjev deti vjep zua xuamf ci og zua tvesvif zuas uxp catopitt.

Dunqmivimz aq vu vjin og vjiz xepv vu xeov vom 55 vju O haitt....
 
O fup'v desi og O'n huoph vu jewi 50 nommoup op 30 ziest. O'n puv xehi-tmewoph gus vji piyv 30 ziest vu hiv 50 nommoup. Pucufz lpuxt og xi'si huoph vu ci esuapf op 30 ziest, epf o'n puv xommoph vu howi aq 30 ziest gus vji *JUQIT* ug e coh sivosinipv gapf us sixesf ev vji ipf.

Pux tuni qiuqmi xomm ati vjot sevoupemobevoup vu mowi up vji tofixeml. "Fup'v lpux og zuasi jisi us hupi vunussux, tu tqipf tqipf tqipf"

Uvjist ati ov vu inquxis vjin vu caomf catopittit epf ipkuz iedj epf iwisz fez. O djuuti vji mevvis.

O emtu *muwi* xjip qiuqmi kanq up vji cepfxehup tezoph "95% ug catopittit geom!!!"
O'n tasqsotif ov't puv POPIVZ POPI QISDIPV (99%) - xjz?

Cideati xi *EMM* geom iwipvaemmz. Zua fup'v MIESP apmitt zua geom. Tu o'n tasqsotif vji pancis otp'v nadj johjis, cideati o'n tasi iwisz ipvsiqsipias jet jef e geomif catopitt. Xjev't vji foggisipdi xovj vji geomif catopitt (95%) epf vji taddittgam (5%) ? Vji 5 qisdipv iyqisoipdif geomasi, nezci nepz nepz vonit uwis, epf vjiz liqv vszoph epf miespoph apvom vjiz taddiifif.
 
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