BiggerPockets Money Podcast · Friday, August 7, 2026
Ann shared that she has always been interested in finance, studying it in college and starting to invest at 18. She has worked as a data engineer, taking advantage of employee stock purchase programs and maximizing her retirement contributions.
“Yeah, absolutely. So I've always loved finance. That's what I studied undergrad and I have been investing since I was 18 years old and pumping money into a Roth IRA wherever I could.”
“But right now, I've worked in consulting and in background, but right now I'm a data engineer, have been doing that for a couple of years, making good money, you know, taking advantage of employee stock purchase programs, throwing as much money into a Roth 401k as I can along with traditional, you know, investment routes as well.”
“We don't really like to shop or, you know, spend money on cars or anything like that. So we try to squirrel away all our extra money wherever we can.”