Gambling on the stock market is the absolute worst advice you could give someone in this situation
It is pretty decent strategy. Wait for a once a century global pandemic, then buy like crazy at the bottom!
I didn't know it was gonna be the pandemic that did it. I was getting ready to get in because I saw the tiny yield curve inversion in like August or September of 2019 and was preparing to make up for lost decades of not investing at all. I learned all I needed to know in three weeks on youtube and I dunno, it worked for me.
I'm no expert myself in anything, but I pick my experts carefully
You can be incredibly fucking lazy for most of your life except for a few key hinges