I have been horrible with money my whole life. I come from means, and have always had the safety net of calling my parents for money when I needed 100 or so.
Last year I got a career, and started making around 63k per year (take home 1700 every 2 weeks after IRA contributions/medical/taxes). I used to make half of that, so i figured that my paycheck to paycheck days were over. I discovered this sub earlier this week, and it motivated me to put together a budget.
Due to my inexperience with money, I was wondering what the expectations are for my income so I can use them as goals. For example, how much should I try to save within a year?
My rough draft of a budget: <blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/MBQgHw7"><a href="[//imgur.com/MBQgHw7](//imgur.com/MBQgHw7)"></a></blockquote><script async src="[//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js](//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js)" charset="utf-8"></script>
The weed and parking line items are pretty much non-negotiable. The streaming stuff less so. I don't really go out that much, so the "going out" was sort of a catch all. The IRS is back taxes from when I did Lyft for 6 months and didn't know WTF I was doing.
Any advice appreciated.
Submitted March 22, 2019 at 09:50PM by osoatwork https://ift.tt/2ToDgtm
