A little help please. . .

[Dwindlin]

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So for some reason or a another this forum seems to be very active with financial issues. I am a financial illiterate and I would like to remedy this. So I am looking for recommendations as to the best way to educate myself financially (prepping for retirement, personal investments, etc). Are business classes worth looking into? Is there a reading list you would all suggest? Should I just abandon hope and pay someone do worry about it for me? Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[imfrankie]

So for some reason or a another this forum seems to be very active with financial issues. I am a financial illiterate and I would like to remedy this. So I am looking for recommendations as to the best way to educate myself financially (prepping for retirement, personal investments, etc). Are business classes worth looking into? Is there a reading list you would all suggest? Should I just abandon hope and pay someone do worry about it for me? Your help is greatly appreciated.

My recommendation is do what you are doing, worry about your own money and learn to manage it yourself. DONT pay someone a few percent to manage your money. No one will take care of you and your family like you. Greed and immorality is ubiquitous in medicine I am so sorry to say.

 

[imfrankie]

So for some reason or a another this forum seems to be very active with financial issues. I am a financial illiterate and I would like to remedy this. So I am looking for recommendations as to the best way to educate myself financially (prepping for retirement, personal investments, etc). Are business classes worth looking into? Is there a reading list you would all suggest? Should I just abandon hope and pay someone do worry about it for me? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Get a student subscription to the Wall Street Journal. You read an article or two hear and there...eventually you are sufficiently savvy to take care of yourself and not get fleeced.

 

[pgg]

So for some reason or a another this forum seems to be very active with financial issues. I am a financial illiterate and I would like to remedy this. So I am looking for recommendations as to the best way to educate myself financially (prepping for retirement, personal investments, etc). Are business classes worth looking into? Is there a reading list you would all suggest? Should I just abandon hope and pay someone do worry about it for me? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Live well below your means.

There, you're ahead of 99% of the population already. 🙂

 

[imfrankie]

Live well below your means.

There, you're ahead of 99% of the population already. 🙂

Amen, this is the key. Pay off your debts and live below your means.
Deserves to be principle number 1.

 

[kaioukenx]

IMO,

http://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Gu...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301244447&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Gu...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301244447&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Winning...=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301244489&sr=1-4

http://www.amazon.com/Only-Guide-Yo...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301244489&sr=1-1

and of course,

bogleheads.org

 

[RabbMD]

I greatly second the bogleheads guide to investing. Borrow it from a library to be truely frugal 🙂. I loan my copy to people interested in investing. A very quick easy read.

 

[sevoflurane]

Or you can take it a step further and not even go to the library: 😉

http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads_Financial_Start-Up_Kit

Doze turned me on to this link when I was asking the same questions. Good starting point.