Personal Finance on Yik Yak | If you can live with your parents while working, its a great way to save money The 40% of my net salary (the part I would usually spend on rent) is being saved so that it eventually can go to my home down payment (currently at $35k, goal is 250k in 2035)

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If you can live with your parents while working, its a great way to save money The 40% of my net salary (the part I would usually spend on rent) is being saved so that it eventually can go to my home down payment (currently at $35k, goal is 250k in 2035)

Anonymous 6w

This is of course assuming you live close enough to where you can commute AND you have a decent relationship with your parents. I know plenty of people not on speaking terms with their parents (and I don’t blame them), so it’s definitely easier said than done.

Anonymous 6w

I’d like to extend this advice even further. In college, I had about 5 job offers from the east coast. I ended up picking the job offer closet to my family’s house so I can live with them and save, despite it not being the highest offer. In my opinion, if you can do college recruiting well for top jobs near your family’s home, you can really accelerate your net worth at the early stage of your career

Anonymous 6w

I will be saving 102% of my take home pay this year because I live at home and go absolutely crazy style on Craigslist

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#2 6w

For context, I have only been working for 2 years and living home and have a net worth already of over $160,000. It’s pretty chill. The other job offer initially (I’ve been promoted now) paid more but I don’t think I would have the net worth despite potentially making more