misterantsypants
Recycles dryer sheets
Thanks for a nice response. And I know at least a few who retired twenties by investing in Apple in 2001 earning much more than I did.Just curious about your thesis area (if that isn't too much personal data). I also got my undergrad degree at 20, but not being as smart, took another 7 years for the Physics PhD. ... and REALLY not being as smart, stayed in Physics/Engineering as a career until 55.
Anyway, my concern with your plan is that you may have developed somewhat opulent tastes requiring a pretty healthy nest egg. I know others who've hit it big in the tech industry and retired in their late 30s to early 40s with savings in the multi 8 figure range. This has been enough to maintain a reasonably luxurious lifestyle for their last 15-20 years of retirement and they still seem happy as clams. Presumably you've run your numbers, so if you're in a similar financial situation I'd say go for it.
Opulence is reserved for treating my hard working GF to a nice travel experience. I stay in real cheap hotels when alone, and I love it. Google Amskal Riad Marrakesh, City Hotel Cairo, Fish Inn Shanghai, about 30-40$ per night. Loved every minute in those places. And best ever was Chung King Mansions Nathan Rd, Hong Kong.
The boring thesis was to demonstrate the role of solar radiation and solar pressure on the osculating Keplerian elements. I was lucky to have Pedro Ramon Escobar send me daily a copy of ACTRAC orbit analysis results of a satellite he tracked and I could see the effects of Sun angle on the errors between modeled ephemeris and actual measured ephemeris. I tossed in the role they played in causing large mesh reflectors on spacecraft to suffer changes in quadratic phase error thus causing an ellipsoid focal region. That attracted attention from a very well know professor specializing in reflector. I was just lucky, he helped bring it all together. And I do know many people who took more than 5 but lots got there in 5.