I think the earlier the better for investing. This is what is missing in our schools back then the importance of investing and compounding interest. We are just thought of study hard, get a work and then retire from the government insurance that is all. But growing up, we learned the hard way that there's more than that.

I can relate to your first salary experience I had that too when I received my first paycheck at work. I splurged and after a week I am asking money from my parents.