Working two full-time jobs helped me become a millionaire by 27 – I’m going to retire at 30

Welcome to In This Economy? An all-too-real series by The Tab, looking into the bleak money and job market young people in the UK are facing. A comfortable bank balance and no worries? Not in this economy. 

A Canadian woman has shared how she managed to save up $1 million (£532,495) before the age of 27, so she can retire by 30.

Despite being from Toronto, Jane Tsang had a similar financial experience to people of her generation growing up in the UK. She started her first job at 15 years old, working in hospitality, before realising that wasn’t what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. 

Jane wanted to hustle in her youth so that she could retire as soon as possible but, as is the case for most young people in the UK, her dream wasn’t so realistic on just one salary. 

At 19 years old, Jane had already started working two full-time roles. Even during her time studying sociology and business at university, she still managed to juggle two jobs. She has since worked as a receptionist, realtor, customer service operator, manicurist and retail worker.

Currently, Jane works as a content creator, alongside her full-time job as a marketing manager. And the most impressive part? She still manages to keep up a social life by working with her friends in cafés

Working two full-time jobs took its toll on Jane’s mental health

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Back when Jane was working two full-time roles, she was clocking straight into one job after leaving another, and working from 8am to 12.30am seven days a week, before getting a mere four hours of sleep.

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This started to negatively impact her mental health, and she even had to go to hospital over stress-related headaches.

Jane’s two jobs as an email marketing manager and call centre operator were making her $120,000 a year, but she admitted: “There were periods where I was really depressed and anxious and I was getting no sleep at all.”

However, being able to make money off social media allowed Jane to quit her second job, and she’s managed to bring in $700,000 in the last year from content creation alone.

‘I would always recommend people hustle especially in their early 20s’

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While Jane’s earnings are not realistic for everyone, her advice to people in their early 20s is to “hustle” while they still have “time on their side.”

She said: “I feel I am still doing everything that I wanted to do in my early 20s, I am just doing it now. Everything that I put on pause I was able to get back tenfold.”

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