Millennials are now wealthier than the Boomer generation was at their age. They can’t believe it either. Never say never! HOW did they do it?
Fifteen years ago, Andy Holmes was a college graduate living with his parents, mowing lawns and digging ditches for extra income. He and his college pals who could only get low-paid jobs wondered if they would have a shot at the success their parents had.
Today, Holmes is a chief financial officer in Kansas City, Mo., on track to retire at 52.
“I’m in a place financially that I couldn’t have imagined coming out of college,” he said. “At age 37, my net worth is closer to what I thought it’d be at 47.”
The change in fortune for Holmes’s generation, now between 27 and 44 years old, was recent and swift.
Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://lnkd.in/ecQg2_tK
