People Have a Lot of Feelings About What How Your Finances Should Look When You're 35
After retirement experts in a MarketWatch piece suggested that people should have twice their annual salary saved by the age of 35, the Internet wasted no time in sounding off on this financial advice via social media.
While some were indignant about the earnest saving suggestion, pointing out its relative difficulty for the average American, others took a more lighthearted approach, offering humorous alternatives to what many considered to be an unattainable standard.
Before you take stock of your savings, take a moment to laugh over the best tweets about how much you should have saved by the age of 35.
These Twitter users thought that the advice was aimed only at a specific sector of Americans.
I can't be only one who reads this & thinks "Who are they TALKING to?" I didn't have that much saved in my 30s. No one I knew had that much saved their 30s & most of us were solid middle class. Is this advice only for the rich? If so, maybe start w/"95% of Americans can ignore." https://t.co/HlTQM5sYGx
— Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) May 15, 2018
I think you meant to say,
By 35 you should have debt twice your salary.— From Russia with Love (@emanzi) May 14, 2018
While others pointed to what they considered the suggestion by presenting other scenarios that were equally unavailable.
By 42, you should be able to lift thrice your own weight.
By 16, you should have written your first screenplay.
By 8, you should have your self portrait hanging in the Philadelphia museum of art. https://t.co/BtIYQkPQVD— Anna Hughes (@AnnaGHughes) May 15, 2018
By age 35 you should run into friends and say "WE SHOULD HANG OUT SOON!" twice a week. You will never hang out. You'll just scream this at each other until one of you dies.
— Luke Trayser (@trukelayser) May 20, 2018
By age 35 you should have approximately 10 times the existential dread you had when you graduated high school.
— Greg Hillis (@gregorykhillis) May 20, 2018
While others found new pieces of sage advice in the financial guidance.
By age 35 you should stop paying attention to condescending life advice from strangers writing think pieces.
— Hipster Viking Amy (@lasrina) May 19, 2018
Everyone's roasting this, but to be fair "be rich" is very good financial advice https://t.co/5gmopOoDiP
— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) May 15, 2018