Ok so first and foremost, I am not looking for financial advise but this does have to do with money. Instead of advice, I have come to the front page of the internet simply to see what the fine people of reddit would do if they were in my shoes.
I am a 21(M) college student workin at a lumber yard/home improvement warehouse for beer and gas money. In order for y’all to understand the question and circumstances correctly, I will take you back in time to around 6 months ago to the beginning of the covid shenanigans. I was towards the end of my school semester and was doing good. Then the virus caused school to go to an online format yada yada you know the drill. After we transitioned to online classes I started struggling and my grades dropped. It felt like there was more busy work and it was accelerated so I couldn’t keep up. On top of that, for some reason my place of employment was deemed essential business however many of our competitors were not. I don’t want to send the wrong picture, I am grateful that I still had a job and a source of income and I am aware many people cannot say the same. However due to us being the only ones open, there was a massive influx of people coming in and the work load blew way out of hand. I’m one particular week, the store profit almost doubled the entire month of November (including Black Friday) from last year. There were so many people buying stuff that we couldn’t keep up. After a month of it the level of frustration in everyone that worked there from upper level management down to the cart pushers was a super volcano ready to blow. With everything that was happening I started to feel a bit depressed in general and spent a lot of time thinking about how the world was nowadays and what my future looked like. I told myself one day after weeks of thinking about the rat race and keeping up with the jones that I was not going to follow the American dream. No instead, I was going to start saving every penny I made and in a couple years I will buy a sailboat and live a dream life sailing to exotic locations and living a completely free life style. So I started saving.
Fast forward back to current time. After 6 months of the virus and places reopening, I can say that everything has fallen almost back to normal. Still busier than normal but manageable for now. The only thing that has changed is my bank account. After saving everything for six months and making more money on random side jobs and other opportunities, I have made way more money than I ever expected. Still nowhere close to what I would want to have to go sail around the world, however, it has made me realize that this dream is way more plausible than I had realized. Now that I do have a bit of change lying around I now see myself window shopping more things. I keep finding things that I convince my self I really want now that I have the money for it.
So here comes the question. If you were me, would you keep true to the dream and keep saving/ invest and set sail one day, or, be appreciative of the dream that thought you how to save but forget it and start treating yourself to a few (not a lot, but a few) toys or nicer vacations? Or anything really.
Know it’s a long read, I tried to keep it short. Thanks ahead for any response! Stay safe out there.
Submitted September 06, 2020 at 05:04AM by Sasquatch_420 https://ift.tt/3h16OJm