Paid off my student loans last month (🎉) and now I’m staring at my budget wondering: do I max my Roth IRA first, or beef up my emergency fund? Both feel urgent. How did you prioritize once you were free from debt?

I know this is an options bowl where most members believe the market will go down, but are there any buy and hold investments you really like?

What’s the high-end base salary one can expect for a commercial SC without an MBA?

Looking to transition to a new career, possibly to SWE. I have a physical science background with some student loan debt. Before I dive into more student loans, I wanted to check out some Software Engineering boot camps....

Any recommendations? What's your personal experience? Are they worth paying, or is college the way?

Need some help finding a SWE job. I’ve been trying for a long time with no luck and just want to get my foot in the door. Any help is welcome whether its some tips or a referral. You can DM or comment here. Thank you!

What skills to have to make it to PO/PM in Faang?

Is the WFH life coming to an end? I'm currently full time WFH but overworked and drastically under paid and looking for a change. Just wondering if it is still possible to find a full-time WFH job now.

I just got interrogated on a interview. Some people shouldn’t be recruiters. Just saying

Hi fishes, looking for referral in Testing domain at Siemens for PLC/DCS control systems. Please let me know if anyone can arrange interview for me. Currently serving notice period.

12% VC Senior

@Assurance - Promotion letters started rolling out already?!

Any Freemasons lurking around here!? Thinking about making a Bowl for my Traveling Brothers. Maybe to talk about how we view this unique Labor (consulting) in a Masonic context, post some inspirational messages, recommend good books, idk stuff like that...

What are the best consulting firms for PE and VC exit, please include boutiques not just obvious ones

If we have to undergo a surgery for a treatment, does SAP cover the cost for that?

Anyone move from Jersey city/NJ to NYC? If your office is based out of nyc, but you’ve been living and wfh in NJ, how much more % do you end up paying in city taxes if you move to nyc? Other pros/ cons/ would you recommend moving in your late 20s?

Hi recently I was interviewing few candidate for ML engineer and business analyst profile.
Got few candidate (total 6) schedule for that role on lever.
Took interview of 2 of them on day 1 and rest 4 on day 2.
4 out of 6 were from Mindtree.
And none of them were actually the one which they portrayed on resume.
They were liers, they don't even know basic sql, python forget about stats.
Have anyone recently faced the similar situation with Mindtree people ?

Hey all, did anyone recently apply for the Bain experienced hire and do the online tests?

Planning a one-week summer vacation to Yellowstone Park area. Family unit of 6, so need to rent a single, large SUV. Just looked at prices and the cheapest car available for 6 people with unlimited mileage is $3,500+. Makes the vacation almost not worth it. Anyone have any recommendations on how to get a better deal? Any discount codes? Thank you in advance!!

I’d like to buy indexes of certain sectors right now, any suggestions? E.g. tech, utilities- others I expect to not be hit as hard

SCARED MONEY DONT MAKE MONEY. BUY NOK 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Im looking to buy a home, program is zero down (no PMI). I make 150k base salary; take home 8k mon. Im looking to buy a house under 350k in my area. Im looking at a payment of about 3k including prop. taxes in a newly gentrifying area. My plan is to house-hack and in a year move out. Is this monthly payment too high? I have under 10k student loans (will get wiped) and no other payments. I want to make sure I can afford it even without tenants just in case.

Is it financially irresponsible to buy a home that requires you to divert what you’re currently saving / investing monthly to pay the mortgage?

Live in SoCal with a combined household income of 210k. What is a reasonable amount to spend on a house?

I have a lot of exposure to big tech and sp500 across my brokerage account and retirement accounts. I recently opened a Roth IRA and have 6k in it to invest. I know the default strategy is to invest in a fund that tracks sp500 but I do that everywhere else regularly. Is there anything else like VYM you recommend? I’m targeting dividend growth ones since it’s a Roth IRA ..

Thoughts on more aggressively paying down mortgage vs investing? I don’t have any real debt outside my mortgage & currently have 180k in my 401k, insurance policy & invest in a 529 for my daughter’s

I’m originally from Brazil and most of my investments are allocated there.

Brazilian fixed income products are paying 13.25% returns and I’m wondering if it’s a good idea to secure this return in Brazil or if now it’s a good time to build a portfolio with US equities?

(90% of my money is on my Brazilian portfolio)

A very privileged question, but do any of you expect significant inheritance? And if so, how has that affected your retirement planning?

What are the best tax optimized investments from post-tax (take home) salary? i.e how can you defer and/or reduce/minimize tax on investments, and what are these investments.

Do you think any of the major cruise line companies will go bankrupt? Debating if I should invest.

Any good non-tech stock buys?

Straw poll: % of gold in your portfolios. If you have, any plans to sell? If not, any plans to buy?

My older sister is an extremely talented woman. She knows everything brand design, graphic design and ideation. The list goes on with what she can do and it is all self taught. She’s on the job hunt looking for something flexible while she’s working at a nonprofit. I want to encourage her to do design but I’m unsure of how to actively help without over stepping?

Just passed $1m net worth and thinking about umbrella insurance. Any recs for carriers/strategy?

VUG or VOOG for long term Roth IRA? 24 years old fwiw. I recognize that I am younger and also have plenty of individual stocks in my regular brokerage account

Thoughts on VBIRX as a short-term (1-3 year) savings vehicle? Split with a HYSA.

Any recommendations for total market index funds? Thanks!

PwC fish: how can I do an in-service transfer of my after-tax 401k contributions to my Roth IRA? I was planning to roll them over after I leave the firm but saw in other thread that we allow in-servic

Does anyone put money into CDs anymore?