So I was going over my finances and looking at future job prospects and all that good stuff that most people seem to be unable to do, and I realized that I'm living so absurdly under my means that it's funny. I suspect that I think of the numbers in my bank account the same way one thinks of points in a video game, in that they're supposed to be earned so that they grow, and grow, and grow.

But what's the point, though? And where does it end?

In a few years, I should be able to get a 1%er job, and with my spending and investing strategies, I'll have so much money left over after expenses that I'll have to ask myself what the purpose is, sooner or later. What then? Will I retire, or travel the world? Or become a philanthropist or something?

I'm still not sure about any of them, but I think that my goal is to have enough money to live off of investment returns by the time I'm thirty. After that, I'd like to dramatically build my real estate portfolio, and perhaps start a few side jobs/part time businesses just to broaden my horizons.

I wonder where it will end, though. I hope to not be a rich, broke guy, but I also don't want to be a lentil-eating, wifi-stealing, thirty five year old retiree, too.