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Want To Get Rich?
The 13 best articles from Building Arks to help you win the financial race (updated May 2022).
Fifteen years ago I was a new engineer, recently returned from the Peace Corps with no money in my pocket. I found a good job with a good salary, got married, bought a house, and settled down for what I assumed was the “good life”.
However, the good life didn’t show up. My expenses almost matched my salary, and even though I had been getting raises and promotions, I was struggling to stay ahead financially. I was able to make some contributions to my company 401k, but that was all the progress I was making financially.
I was following the conventional wisdom that my job, my house, and my 401k were the path to wealth. Only the results weren’t as I expected.
After a few years of watching my net worth inch forward at a snail’s pace, I decided that I must be doing something wrong. So I started studying and learning about how others had built wealth. I learned about real estate, the stock market, and other ways to invest, each with a set of strategies that had made others successful.
However, the most important thing that I learned was that the standard advice we all…
