Welcome to the Jill on Money podcast. It is Wednesday, December 16th, and just another day ticking away on your to-do list, right? You've probably said to yourself, well, what am I going to do to get these presents ready? What am I going to do to have my holiday celebration with,

you know, two to four people? And what am I going to do to help me reach my financial goals?

Oh, wait, that third thing? That I can actually help you with. If you have a financial question,

investment, tax, education, even career, send us an email. Ask Jill at

Jillonmoney.com. Ask Jill at Jillonmoney.com. And if you would like to join us on the

program, let us know that is what Kelly did. Kelly is on the line from North Carolina.

And Kelly, I would have hardly known that,

except for that accent of yours. So what can we do for you? Well, I hope I didn't make it too

obvious with the accent. But hey, no, I just wanted to reach out. I've been listening to the show

now for about a year and it's become part of the daily routine. But I figured the best way to

get the answers I

needed was just to go straight to the source. A little background on myself, I am 27 going on 50,

and I say that kind of jokingly because my financial goal is to retire by age 50. By that point,

I want to work because I want to, not because I have to. There's probably easier said than done

because I don't have a

wife and kids in the picture right now, but wanted to get a report card from you pretty much to see

where I am as far as being on track and what else I can do to make that process for reality.

Okay, great. So first of all, are you working right now? Yes. So background on myself, I am in sales right now in a tech role.

So I'm in the ballpark of about $100,000 annually.

No debt right now.

I have the exception of a primary mortgage and two investment properties.

So I'm working to scale the real estate side to get at least one or two properties a year, eventually

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