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5 Ways to Invest in Yourself in Your Twenties

4th June 2019

invest in yourself in your twenties

Invest in yourself. What does that really mean? Is it selfish? Is there an ETF of myself I can invest in? Yes, the phrase โ€˜invest in yourselfโ€™ can be a bit vague, so today weโ€™re going to break down ... Read more

How Life Design Interviews Will Help Get Your ‘Dream Career’

30th May 2019

life design interview

The best people thatโ€™ll help you get your dream job: those who already have it. Youโ€™ve made a list of career paths that you want to try out. Youโ€™ve done some quick research and ruled out most of ... Read more

How Career Building and Exploration Allowed FG to Earn a $500,000 Salary

21st May 2019

career building exploration

The Financial Gladiator is a German who built his career to a 6 figure income, bought real estate in Poland, quit his job and is now travelling the world on his rental income. His strategy behind ... Read more

Career Capital: What it is and How to Build it

14th May 2019

career capital

Most of us donโ€™t know what we want to do in our twenties. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ And thatโ€™s absolutely normal. Our twenties are for figuring out what we want to do, what skills we want to build and which path to ... Read more

The 5 Rules to Effectively Manage People ๐Ÿ‘ฆ

8th May 2019

how to manage people

Managing people isnโ€™t easy. ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ And yet, if we want to live in a society, have friends and family, weโ€™re going to always be in touch with other people. Along with finance, people management is ... Read more

Why You Should Start Saving For Retirement in Your Twenties

30th April 2019

saving for retirement twenties

You want to be saving for your retirement in your twenties. Why? Many of us think our country will take care of us when we reach old age. But what if we keep changing country? What if we don't ... Read more

Don’t Follow Your Passion – Here’s Some Real Career Advice

23rd April 2019

don't follow passion

Following your passion is terrible advice. โŽ But everyone tells us itโ€™s the only way weโ€™ll ever get the job โ€˜of our dreamsโ€™, or ever enjoy what we do. It's what Steve Jobs said at the 2005 Stanford ... Read more

Why Living with Your Parents Can Make a House of a Difference

16th April 2019

This is a guest post from my online friend Ben from Blue Dollar Bull. He knows what he's talking about when it comes to family legacy and using your family to leverage impact, career and finances. If ... Read more

Should I Care About My Net Worth in My Twenties?

9th April 2019

net worth twenties

Should I care about my net worth in my twenties? The short answer: no. The long answer: educate yourself ๐Ÿ˜‰. No, you shouldn't care, but it's good to understand what the number means and how you ... Read more

Everyone Should Experience Working a Minimum Wage Job

2nd April 2019

working minimum wage

Yep, everyone should experience working a minimum wage job. This may seem like pretty counter intuitive advice - aren't skills, experience and exploration the priority? How would a minimum wage job ... Read more

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Financially Mint is on another break! โ˜• I will Financially Mint is on another break! โ˜•

I will be living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the next few months, and then hopefully heading to Australia. 
My plans for the next year:

I'm putting the career testing theory into practice. My next career test is working for an NGO here in Kuala Lumpur. This week will be my first week. I will be working with sex trafficking survivors and I've also been asked to do some financial education presentations to help the staff.

After that the plan is to move to Melbourne, Australia, and do my next career test: consulting. If that doesn't work out I will try another career test which may be more achievable: business development in a startup. Thanks to the amazing career books that I've read, I'm pretty confident I can get an interesting job. We'll see how it rolls. ๐Ÿ€

How am I funding this? I'm very excited to say that I've managed to grow my part-time freelancing income to a full-time income that can sustain me in South East Asia (I would need to work full-time in Europe). I'm calling myself a 'Freelance FinTech Writer'. Rent is crazy cheap (like 300โ‚ฌ/month) and it's literally cheaper to eat out than cook. I'm still able to save 15% of my income. ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ The increase in clients and pay has been thanks to all the effort I put into Financially Mint, and to some crazy cold emailing and networking in the past few months. 
After some thought, I concluded that learning mark-up language (HTML + CSS) was a more efficient use of my time than writing blog posts and working on FM... so I am now taking a break to learn some basic coding and decide what to do next.

I will still be podcasting and taking part in the FI community on Twitter and everywhere else... so I'll still be seeing you around ๐Ÿ˜‰

To our success ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰
Only 30% of jobs are posted online. ๐Ÿ™„ Let's sa Only 30% of jobs are posted online. ๐Ÿ™„

Let's say you've got a list of career paths to test. You've figured out a direction, you know which sector you want to work in and you've got some cool companies in mind.

But then what? How do you get an internship in the company you really want to work for? How do you get a job in that specific NGO? How do you get them to notice you? ๐Ÿค”

In FM's latest post I share a strategy that I am still testing but seems to work - copied from a book titled 'Designing your Life' by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans:

The strategy: Conducting 'Life Design' Interviews. .
A Life Design Interview is basically meeting the person that has your 'dream career' for coffee. โ˜•

You find someone who is working at the company you want to work for, in the sector you want to work for or simply has a position you're interested in, and you reach out to them (LinkedIn helps). You ask about their story, their position, how they got to where they are and their advice to people starting out. 
This is what I've been doing for the past month in Edinburgh, and of the 40 people I contacted, I met 8 of them for coffee, my goal to simply learn about their story.

With an added bonus: Trust. โœ…

Not only did I learn stuff about working in a startup, or as a content writer or working in an NGO, but I also built a trusted connection. It's those connections that help you find the hidden jobs, the dream careers and the best opportunities.

Check out FM's latest post for a proper run down on Life Design interviews. ๐Ÿ’ช (Last week we organised the FI Europe podcast retreat! An amazing 4 days doing speeches, masterminds, debates, boat trips, beach and surfing. Post on this coming soon ๐Ÿ”ฅ)
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Investing in yourself now will return bucket loads Investing in yourself now will return bucket loads in the future. ๐Ÿ”ฎ

I talk a lot about this on Financially Mint - how taking the time to build career capital and explore career paths will allow you to find a career of best personal fit, which will then make you the money you need.

But it is true that I am personally at the very start of this journey, and so can't offer many examples of this working. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ Well today, this changes as I interview the Financial Gladiator, who did exactly that.

He went to university to study business in Poland, and finished his masters in Australia. In the meantime, he was doing internships, making connections, building skills and beefing up his portfolio. 
He says it himself: ' I always looked to add experience and skills to my repertoire rather than dollars' ๐Ÿ’ธ.
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7 internships later in several different countries and industries and a lot of hustling, moving around and learning about what career fitted him best, FG ended up in a job that paid him a six figure salary. This kept on snowballing, and in his early thirties he hit a salary of over $500,000. .
That goes to show how much investing in yourself can return in the future.
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$500,000 annual salary doesn't need to be your goal, but it still goes to show that you'll make the bulk of your money after investing in your own career. ๐Ÿ“ˆ

A great interview filled with actionable career advice and FG's complete story, check out FM's latest blog post! (Edinburgh castle ๐Ÿ”ฅ)
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Most of us don't know what we want to do in our tw Most of us don't know what we want to do in our twenties ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ. And that's absolutely normal.

But that's why we don't want to be committing to one thing - who know what you might want to do in 5 years? ๐Ÿง

Instead of committing, why not be exploring, investigating and testing career paths. But how can you do this cleverly without being a typical 'millennial-career-hopper'? By building career capital at the same time.

This means that every career test you do will help you build skills, connections and a more solid portfolio. If you have no idea where to start, here are some examples of jobs/activities that can help you build career capital:

1. Working for a growing organisation with a growing performance: this could be consulting, a startup - anywhere with a good mentor and team ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ
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2. Graduate studies - for those who want to work in research, a think tank, etc.
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3. Building a valuable and transferable skill - skills such as writing, programming, designing, data science, etc will always be useful in the future ๐Ÿ’ป
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4. Creating content - you don't always need a shiny piece of paper or a medal to show that you've done something. Creating your own thing can be just as useful.
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And much more amazing career advice... in FM's latest blog post ๐Ÿค“
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(Iโ€™m running out of pictures to post so hereโ€™s one of a beautiful evening in Edinburgh) .
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