23 Things I Wish I Knew: #6: Compound Interest is Your Best Friend

If I have one regret from my decade as a 20-something, it's that I didn’t invest back when my whole life was stretched out in front of me. I didn’t start saving until I was in my thirties, and even then, I needed a lot of handholding. The biggest reason for this? I was afraid that as a sex worker, I couldn’t ask for help. That does not have to be you.

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Things I Wish I'd Known: #3: After 40, Nobody Cares

When you’re forty, nobody is going to give two shits that you did sex work in your teens or twenties. Or your thirties. Or at all, ever. By the time you’re middle-aged, everyone has their story — they’ve struggled with addiction, they’ve gone bankrupt, they’ve had an abortion or been to jail or have a child who doesn’t speak to them...

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