I'm finishing my computer engineering degree in June and am working full time as a software engineer at the moment earning 80K a year. Which might seem like a decent salary but after saving 1500$ a month for retirement and paying 2000$ a month for living expenses I'm already down to a flex budget of around 1k a month.
How am I supposed to afford to travel, go out with friends, buy a new car(need a snow vehicle), continue my hobbies (snow skiing, waterskiing) and backpacking) when I'm only earning 1000$ a month after you take out living expenses?
Edit: I guess the better question is what is the best way to save for big items that I want to buy in a time span of 1-2 years.
Edit: living expenses more detailed on monthly basis.
$1,200 for rent, utilities, cable,wifi $600 for groceries $120 for gas $80 for phone $0 for car parents let me use one of theirs but I'm trying to save for my own.
TLDR; Earn 80k a year but feel like I can't afford to do the things I want on that salary.
Submitted March 05, 2017 at 12:30PM by Slowler http://ift.tt/2m8iRJZ
