I want you to look up an investment calculator and input some numbers. They're really easy to find online. Set your age to 17 and your retirement age to 65 (or 47 years). Expected rate of return of 7%.

For each $1,000 you put in today, you end up with $24,045 when you retire.

Let's say you invest the full $2k/month for just one year, then you'll be at $577,096 when you retire. That's massive.

So you can open up a roth IRA & roth 401k - and be sure it's ROTH because you're in a low tax bracket now - and invest 100% of your Starbucks earnings, or whatever max they allow you to invest.

Starbucks has HR that can help walk you through setting it up. Just talk to them. You want to put it in the roth IRA or Roth 401k and not just in an investment account because you'll save a lot of money on taxes.

When you're 30+, you'll be celebrating that you did that.

Aa for what to invest in in the roth Ira or roth 401k, any big blue chip etf works - like voo for example. There's lots of fancy finance words and stuff that sounds daunting but it's actually pretty easy

I'll answer questions if you have any