I have accepted a position at a hospital that will have me earning at least $30 an hour. That is ALOT of money for me. Considering the fact that I will be 24, splitting living expenses 50-50 with mom, and I have a vehicle that is completely paid for, I will have lots of $$$ left over every month ($2800+) after my expenses are paid. What can I/should I do with the excess money? Hurry and pay off student loans (23k)? Save up and buy a new car cash? I don't have kids and I am single if that means much.
What did you do with your disposable income when you began your Nursing career?
ETA: I am not interested in becoming a home owner at this point. I like the flexibility of being able to pick up and go when I please and owning a home would make that difficult.
They were legal in Texas in the 80's, I wasn't much into beer or liquor. You went to your local nightclub in Dallas and ordered it and they served them to you on a napkin for $25, The high lasted about 6 hours, Many good times back then.....
While home ownership is the American dream and linked to higher net worth I think one should wait to buy till they are ready to settle down in one place.
I disagree, I was in my first house by age 24 and had it payed off by age 30. I lived the life of riley after that for many years, and was able to work for myself and when I wanted to for almost 20 years.
I'm not prickly by nature but I did feel like the one poster came down on OP like a negative ton of bricks for trying to be optimistic and proactive. I know a lot of young people who don't give a single thought to planning for the future. So she hasn't passed boards yet. Most do on their first try and she has her BSN which is no tiny task. If she posted that "I have my BSN and am afraid of the NCLEX" would the response be all "you might fail, don't get happy about your prospects blah blah blah." She is excited about a bright future and wants to daydream about it. Good for her.
After looking at that, I looked up ballin' directly. Totally not what I thought it was. (Sorta relieved by that.)
So, if OP says she's ballin' fam, it could mean she's playing basketball with her mom, she's poor but pretending like she's rich, she's living off her mom and excited to brag about it, or......? I don't know. There seems to be no good meaning to saying she's ballin' fam. Unless......she actually did mean it the way I took it, but that would be incestuous. Or maybe she's meaning unrelated sugar daddy.
I'm not prickly by nature but I did feel like the one poster came down on OP like a negative ton of bricks for trying to be optimistic and proactive. I know a lot of young people who don't give a single thought to planning for the future. So she hasn't passed boards yet. Most do on their first try and she has her BSN which is no tiny task. If she posted that "I have my BSN and am afraid of the NCLEX" would the response be all "you might fail, don't get happy about your prospects blah blah blah." She is excited about a bright future and wants to daydream about it. Good for her.
I was hired, working and paid before taking the NCLEX. I had to get a temporary graduate nurse license for it. Of course, this made me horribly terrified when test day came because no one would give me a real answer when I asked, "what happens if I fail?" I didn't, thank goodness.
Instead of annoying a good amount of your fellow nurses (oh wait...) why don't you go on over to Purse Forum and ask them how to spend an extra $1500 a month "fam"?
Ironically they'll probably tell you to oh I don't know... save it as $1500 will hardly even cover one luxury item.
Or you can take that $1500 a month and give a new car salesman free reign, ask a Bloomingdale's associate to help you spend it, do something nice for your mother, etc...
There are tons of ways to blow $1500 none of which you need nurses to tell you about. Actually you know, nurses tend to be a practical bunch so you probably won't get the answers you're looking for here. How you earn your "disposable" income hardly has anything to do with how you spend it.
I was hired, working and paid before taking the NCLEX. I had to get a temporary graduate nurse license for it. Of course, this made me horribly terrified when test day came because no one would give me a real answer when I asked, "what happens if I fail?" I didn't, thank goodness.
I too had a paying job that I was on for a month before I took my NCLEX. I needed the money badly so test day was a nightmare for me. I worked peritoneal dialysis with a private physician group so they had some leeway with me not being licensed yet. I made it my business to prepare and my shiny new job made me work that much harder to succeed. And ballin' just means you have some extra money to throw around :).
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They were legal in Texas in the 80's, I wasn't much into beer or liquor. You went to your local nightclub in Dallas and ordered it and they served them to you on a napkin for $25, The high lasted about 6 hours, Many good times back then.....