17 Years old, new to finance & investing!

[Leo Chun]

Hello!

This is my first post here on BP, I wanted to start my time here on seeking some insight. I'm 17 years old, I'm currently a Junior in high school and I recently got interested in finance, under the topic of financial freedom. Retiring early, living my life with full enjoyment is incredibly intriguing to me and I believe starting at a young age, investing fully in my education will get me there. I have been doing my best learning during this quarantine, spending hours reading and watching seminars/videos about self-improvement and investments. I believe that in order to get my full potential, I may need some of your insight for my journey and help me make some choices, and enlighten me with your expertise in this field. I am very ambitious and hard-working and I do the work and research when presented to me with value. 

I am asking the people of this forum to drop down some insight that I could use as a 17-year-old, jumping onto this investment, real estate, and financial freedom journey. If you are someone that could be of help to me within mentorships, I would love to contact you in any way possible, I'm always available, especially during COVID. Anything helps, suggested books, seminars, articles, or maybe some personal insight you can give me. 

THANKS!

[Aaron K.]

Set yourself up some concrete steps like saving x amount for a down payment for a house in x city and give yourself a time limit.  Your profile suggests you live in the bay so I'm guessing you're going to want to invest out of your area so I'd start narrowing down where you want that to be.  Know that this won't be easy and that the best jump start you can give investing is having a day job, a lot of people who believe in FIRE want to get away from a job but it really turbocharges savings if you have a job and invest at the same time.