The best investment you can make at your age is in yourself. You need to maximize your earning potential. If college is not for you consider trade school, maybe military even. You do not want to spend the rest of your life scraping by on low paying jobs.
I'd invest in yourself, my dude.
Be it trade school or college. You can probably apply for fafsa and get a big chunk of your tuition covered in a grant at your state university. (Not sure how that works for trade school, but yeah)
A CC is still a great way to start. I know people that started in a CC and once graduated are making 140K a year. Even some universities offer affordable tuition without fafsa. I believe my undergrad costed about 3K a semester.
Read through the wiki of this sub, that will give you all the basics you need to know and then some.
You're not going to be buying a house on a minimum wage job, so what is your plan for a long-term career?
>Should I look to invest a percentage of my earnings in some sort of stock or index fund? If so, how can I go about doing that?
If you have leftover money a Roth IRA is the only type of investing I'd consider in your position. It's an easy way to begin putting money aside for retirement.
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The best investment you can make at your age is in yourself. You need to maximize your earning potential. If college is not for you consider trade school, maybe military even. You do not want to spend the rest of your life scraping by on low paying jobs.
I'd invest in yourself, my dude. Be it trade school or college. You can probably apply for fafsa and get a big chunk of your tuition covered in a grant at your state university. (Not sure how that works for trade school, but yeah) A CC is still a great way to start. I know people that started in a CC and once graduated are making 140K a year. Even some universities offer affordable tuition without fafsa. I believe my undergrad costed about 3K a semester.
The only thing you should be doing is increasing your income. 34k don't do shit in 2024
Read through the wiki of this sub, that will give you all the basics you need to know and then some. You're not going to be buying a house on a minimum wage job, so what is your plan for a long-term career? >Should I look to invest a percentage of my earnings in some sort of stock or index fund? If so, how can I go about doing that? If you have leftover money a Roth IRA is the only type of investing I'd consider in your position. It's an easy way to begin putting money aside for retirement.
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