My father recently passed away and I will be getting 150k from his life insurance policy. I've never had this much money in my life and it's more than I would make in like 7 years at any job that would hire me.
I have zero experience with anything. I'm thirty-three years old and literally have no real life experience. I spent the entirety of my twenties being a caretaker for members of my family. Mainly my mother who took years and years to die from lung cancer/COPD. I'm very ashamed of this. Not that I was helping my family, but that I have absolutely nothing to show for more than a decade of life being lived.
I know 150k isn't a mil, that it isn't going to last me forever and that it's not going to be able to accrue enough interest to live off of forever, but to my hands it may as well be 10 million dollars because both sums are well above the threshold that I can personally comprehend.
I need to know what I should do with this money. I don't know much, but putting 150k into your checking account doesn't seem like something you should do.
And I want to ask you guys instead of a bank because... well I don't know why I would trust internet strangers more than a bank, but I do.
Edit: Not sure if I put the right flair on this, sorry in advance if it's not.
Submitted March 26, 2019 at 09:32PM by zersch https://ift.tt/2YtLm7u
