Reddit mentions of The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need

If anyone is interested, there is a really good book by an Aussie guy called The Barefoot Investor. It is from an Australian perspective but the principles are the same; having your own savings in your own account to spend from rather than the poison which is credit card debt (and other sorts of personal loan debt).

https://www.amazon.com/Barefoot-Investor-Money-Guide-Youll/dp/0730324214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520649572&sr=8-1&keywords=barefoot+investor

Try reading The Barefoot Investor. It's very Australia-specific, but the ideas are universal.

Firstly there is absolutely nothing wrong with being on your own. I'm from Ireland also and I'm on my own tonight also which is in fact the norm for me. I don't think I've gone out to anything in over a year and then it was probably another year before then. I just got fed up with the complete bullshit that goes with going out. There seems to be this necessity ingrained within every young person in Ireland that you have to go out at the weekend to enjoy yourself and that if you're not going out there must be something wrong with you. Nah boy. Absolute rubbish. Stay in. Download some great film you haven't seen in ages. Browse Netflx. Make plans for something you always wanted to do but never had the courage to see through. And you don't even have to see it through now. Just the act of seeing how you could feasibly go about doing something can make you feel better about yourself. Reread your favourite book. Don't read? Nows a great time to start.

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Secondly If you're not happy in your job see if you can make a plan for how to go about learning a new skill to get a different one. Theres loads of those MOOC's now. I'd recommend Udacity https://eu.udacity.com. All their individual courses are free and you can do them from the comfort of home without interacting with anyone. Or if you do want some interaction there are some message boards and facbook groups for Udacity courses. Or even see if theres some other career path you might be interested in. Nobody knows what they want to do when they're doing the Leaving. Heres the career guidance you get "Good at Maths and Physics? - Engineering for you, Good at Science? - Pharmaceutical Industry for you, Good at everything - off to medical school with you. Not sure what you want do? - Here's a business/computery oriented degree". Sheesh! Like whats even the point with all that? You don't figure out what you want to do until much later. Loads of people end up going back to College as Mature Students to do what they really want do anyway once they're sure they've got a plan of action to follow (which comes from making that plan I mentioned earlier). Like training to be a solicitor. Here's the Law societies guide on how to do that https://www.lawsociety.ie/Public/Become-a-Solicitor/

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And on the money side of stuff this book is great https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barefoot-Investor-Money-Guide-Youll/dp/0730324214 The guy tells you how to basically save the money you make in your normal job and put it towards pension funds and so on and how to get the best deals in super funds and online banks and stuff. And how to invest money wisely in things like property and shares. And when you realise that you can do all this too it will make you feel a lot better about yourself and your current situation (which there is nothing wrong with)

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And don't worry about that social aspect. People drift and friends move apart as you get older. In the end all you have is your family and they are the people that matter the most.

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This book is Australian but the advice within it is so simple that it transformed my approach to money.

I have most always made good money but have been rudderless with spending - this book has helped me immensely.

Check it out: The Barefoot Investor