At the age when many young people begin their working lives, Andrea Redondo from Madrid no longer needed to continue with hers. So before she turned 30, she left her job and began to indulge her hobbies and focus on helping others manage her finances. “There are solid, fundamental pillars that are applied by both people with large capital and those who are starting to invest,” the founder of El Club de Inversión tells the “Bolsillo” podcast.
The Valencian Josan Jarque was also able to leave his job at an early age, at 43 years old, after achieving financial independence thanks to investing in the stock market. Since then, he has dedicated himself to traveling the world, doing what really fulfills him and sharing his experience with other people through his blog, the book How to Live off of Income and the days he organizes every anus. But he warns: “Financial independence is something that when it comes suddenly can do you a lot of harm.”
Yes, finding yourself with all the time in the world from one day to the next can generate a certain existential emptiness. And, furthermore, living without being tied to a job, traveling from one place to another like Willy Fog, “can arouse envy” and “incomprehension” among friends and family, Jarque is honest.
For Redondo, living completely off of income is not a goal to pursue, but rather a path to be enjoyed, because “just if you have a little financial freedom you will be much better off than before and you will enjoy life more.” And he details step by step how to achieve it from scratch.
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