How To Get Financial Freedom

It is almost impossible to get rich from your salary, but in ten years you can get your freedom. Here are three things you can do as soon as you start earning money.

Bostan Andrei
3 min readJul 17, 2022
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Even when you are hired for a high salary and manage to put some money aside at the end of each month, you will find, perhaps with disappointment, soon enough that you have no chance of ever getting rich from your monthly income. This is a critical moment when there is a temptation to rather “enjoy life” and spend everything for immediate well-being. To overcome the moment, the secret is to propose an alternative goal: not wealth, but rather financial freedom. This goal is much more convenient, but it still requires considerable effort.

Do something else “besides” the main job

No matter how demanding and well-paid the main job is, you have to keep in mind that no one will ever guarantee it to you indefinitely, as you can’t even be sure that you will always find something just as good. If you have a skill or a talent that can bring you a modest income, continue to practice them, even in a “breakdown” regime. It can be trade, services, small manufacturing, or seasonal crops in the weeds of grandparents — anything can bring an additional income even…

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Bostan Andrei

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