For the past ten years I’ve worked two jobs. I have just been made redundant from one, where I was paid £32k a year. In the other, I get paid £31k a year.
With my redundancy included, I now have £30k saved. By bills are £860 a month which is more than covered by the money I am still being paid. It will mean a different lifestyle where I need to not be as frivolous with money, but it still leaves over £1k a month after bills.
And so I’m wondering what to do now. I’m 35 and I enjoy working, but the idea of applying for a job with strict clock in and out times, with a boss I may not like, isn’t appealing. I love the job I am currently still doing, get to control my diary, have no one telling me what to do really, and I don’t want to give it up. But it will be very difficult to get another job around it.
So I thought about investing the £30k in property, but then everyone says there is no money in that any more. I thought I could buy a cheap flat with a long term tenant, but everyone is saying it’s not worth it. I wish I had a great business idea I could put the money into but I don’t (I thought about trying to open a bookshop but there is little money in that either).
I know £30k isn’t a lot to some people, but it’s a huge amount to me and much more than I’ve ever had before and certainly more than my parents could’ve dreamt. But I have no idea what, if anything, I can do with it to grow it.
Im just posting for any advice there might be. Thanks.