 You can't do that with the stock market. And the stock market won't produce a living for you. You can buy enough real estate that it will cash flow enough that you can retire, quit your job. You can't do that with the stock market. Stock market doesn't pay you any income. You have to understand the difference. When you're taking money out of the stock market, you're taking money out of your investments. That'd be like me selling off a house to live for the year and continue to sell a house off each year until I had no houses and no money.