Edit- I appreciate ALL your comments and insights. Thank you all for your time and I will take each point carefully into consideration, form a gameplan, and update the situation as it unfolds in the future.
Hi everyone, so here's my situation. I'm currently 28. I live in Chicago. Luckily I live with my parents so my only costs are 70 for my cell phone, and 150 for my dental Bill's each month, plus 80 for my bus pass, and around 150 a month for whatever I want to spend it on. I earn around 1500 to 1600 a month.
The rest of my money I've been actively trying to save as much as I can. So far I have 1300 saved up so far. I can manage to save up around 1000 a month. I just started saving recently but I plan to keep going as long as I can. I'm bogged down in defaulted student loans so I can't pay them, as that would totally kill my income (450 a month!) And I have some minor credit card debt (under 700 total, nothing major).
I want to buy a car to make transportation easier and also to give me a better opportunity to look for better jobs. But my main goals are to somehow find some sort of industry or industrial school in which I can learn a trade and have actual liveable income. Next goal would be to move out, as my parents are repatriating back to Europe in less than 2 years.
Do you guys have any advice on the best ways to proceed, ideas on potential career routes I can look into, or what to do about the living situation in the future? I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed at this point and something's gotta give.
Thank you greatly for reading and any ideas on helping me with a gameplan would be like a godsend. Thank you guys and gals so much in advance. All the best.
Submitted March 29, 2019 at 01:52PM by bubadmt https://ift.tt/2JQf97m
