A little background: Since leaving University after 3 months of attending, I got my old job at Pizza Hut Delivery and then a technical support role for my dad's company (communications provider) for a year, made £13,500. It doesn't sound like much, but I'm still living at my parent's and my spending is relatively limited. I quit that job and then got a job as a bartender a few weeks later, worked there until December of last year and planned to have enough money to last me until February to get me a job in IT, I was studying at an IT educational institution during the week to get some basic qualifications. I already knew a lot about IT and networks from my previous job, but didn't have any qualifications.
To shorten this story a bit, I now work for a Private ISP and Professional Services (Servers, VMs etc) and absolutely love it. It's an Apprenticeship which earns me £13000 a year, but due to the MD being impressed with my ability and progression in the 2 weeks I've been there, he pretty much guaranteed me a job at the end of my apprenticeship, which is a year. Salary looks like it would go up to £20000, but it's no guarantee.
I have no formal debt, just some money I owe to my mum for supporting me, as I have next to no funds right now. I own a car, a motorcycle (currently uninsured and off the road) and several expensive PCs. So if things were to go bad, I COULD sell off several of my valuable assets.
That's some background about me, now looking to the future. I want to know where I should go from here regarding my finances, I want to try and set myself up for the next 5-10 years, allowing me to secure a mortgage on a house, I'm not so concerned about pensions right now.
Thanks for any advice given.
Submitted March 19, 2017 at 05:20AM by TheCaptain53 http://ift.tt/2nnBUTN
