I (18M) want to be financially free.

Make money.

Get good at shit. There is no easy way, but a solid career is a good start. Web dev isn't bad. Investing might or might not work.

Is the only way become financially free by being an entrepreneur? I'

It's one way. There are others.

'm also going to college next year and I'm trying to get into a computing college so I can get a well paying job in the field of programming/ web developement, so that I can start my own bussines in that field one day.

Good, that's roughly what I did.

Bro, you need to learn about crypto and get started investing. Learn which ones are legit and have use cases because there are a lot of shit coins out there. If in doubt, start off with Bitcoin (BTC) and Etherium (ETH). You need to get on that like yesterday.

Oh, and NO DEBT! If you can’t afford to pay cash then you can’t afford to have it.

Take care man.

Ditch the crypto. Run wheel strategy on S&P 500. Use margin. I make $1800-$3000/mo on $50k with margin of $150k. Then move to Thailand and we'll hang out and live like kings.

Fuck crypto. That is gambling. Invest in things that pay you to own them: stocks with real dividends and real estate. Real estate is your safest move.

Source: I haven't worked in years and did it through real estate and stocks.

Yo bro,

Before I got financially wracked, I was on path of financial freedom - got financial advisor and she told me first steps:

1. Get savings 3x your monthly earnings;
2. Understand in which baskets you want to put your eggs in (which FOR YOU is the most enjoyable) - at the start conservative investments (could be, with low % of risk and low % of margin ; dividends etc.), education which pays off rapidly (your mentioned programming - great way of rapidly gain back investment), business (either b2c or b2b);
3. Reinvest in projects or what you enjoy the most.

One of my friends is a web developer, can work whenever he wants(constant requests), wherever he wants (travelling a lot) - its great! Financial freedom for everyone is different - one desires to not work at all, other - that they can have fuck off money to not to tense butt cheeks when unpleasant job requests occur. Business is great, working in high paying jobs are great as well - do what you enjoy an let it kill you ))) haha