I'll start off saying that I made about $55k last year before taxes at my current job. The year before that I was playing keno (lottery game we have in Oregon at bars) at work and hit a jackpot for $57k. Shit was nuts. So now a year later I have about $48k in savings. I've mostly used this money to take care of long awaited financial business like paying off my DUI, rehabilitating delinquent student loans (which are no longer in rehabilitation as I now have the balance down to $2,400 I make monthly payments on). I comfortably off of how much I make and I live with my girlfriend who has a job of her own. My part of rent is $500 a month at the moment. I've had some thoughts about buying a house and continuing working in bars but kind of convinced myself later that with lack of job security in my field of work I should change careers if I wanted to buy. On the other hand I've thought about going back to school but I don't want to spend money and time on an education that will make the same salary as I do now without a degree. I'd like to ask for some outside opinions here. I'm not fully convinced that just having this cash sitting in a savings account is the best thing for me right now.
Submitted March 27, 2019 at 08:33PM by easythirtythree https://ift.tt/2uwihKX
