You just listed "professional gambler" 9 times.

Not true, "professional athlete" isn't just a professional gambler, it's one who won a certain kind of lottery even before birth.

For start, day trading is effectively gambling.

Your advise is horrible and will harm people taking it seriously.

And earning 8 millions as "social media influencer" by age 35 is so unhelpful advise that gambling would be more effective...

> For start, day trading is effectively gambling.

Not unless you managed to get hired as a (quant) trader with a performance fee. Privatized gains, shared losses. Of course, it's very hard to get hired for such a role.

> Finance

I have a ton of friends in finance. Many worked for the most prestigious IB firms out of undergrad and moved on to PE/hedge funds where they make mountains of cash. I don't know 1 of them who has even considered retiring anywhere close to 35, nor of anyone in their professional networks who've done so. Not saying its impossible but the likelihood of doing so is vanishingly small.

> doesn't take much to retire at 35. All you need is about $5-$8M

You live in a rarefied world, my friend.

> All you need is about $5-$8M in the bank

Oh, is that all? Well, why aren't we all doing that?

I want to live in your world where people think you need hundreds of millions to retire, and getting $5M is apparently super-easy.

You quite delusional about a number of things. It's not even worth pointing them out.