I am a 20 year old sophmore and still living with my parents and really want to move out, most off my friends have moved out but there parents are able to help them pay bills. My parents would not be able to help me pay for bills. Going to school full time and trying to work a job to were i can make enough to pay rent sounds almost impossible. Right now I am working a part time job but make next to nothing. Does anyone have any suggestions of how I would be able to live on my own. If i moved out i would get a roommate but this would still leave me with paying 350-400 for rent. thank you!
2006-12-01 11:50:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Do those friend go to school full time also? Are you doing it because you feel you need to be up to par with your "independent" friend? Think about it, how INDEPENDENT can they really be when their parents are still helping them pay their bills?! I would hardly call that independent! If you ask me, you're the smart one!!!
It's not that you don't realize your financial position, because obviously you do! You're already struggle living at your parents, and you're living at your parents because you want to go to school, and you're going to school to prepare for a better future, right? Needless to say, anything more than that would cost you only MORE hardship! On top of it all, not only are you going to make it hard for yourself, you're going to delay your education!
Realize the reason for the sacrifices that you are making right now.
In a few years, your friends are still either going to be in school and still having their parents pay for their bills as you're sitting pretty in a big executive office, driving a nice car, in a 4 bedroom house.........ON THE BEACH!!!! OR do you want to be right along side your friends, in a passenger side of a yellow Pinto?
I'm extremely independent myself, but I did NOT move out of my parents until i was 24!!! Now, I own a 2 companies, a convertible bmw, a lexus, in a 4 bedroom house on a dock with a small boat! I'm proud to say, I did it all myself!
So, my point, small sacrifice for the bigger things in life! Dont care about what others think or say about you. As long as you know you're a good person and to everyone else, who cares what they think. What you think about yourself is what matters most!
2006-12-01 12:28:12 · answer #1 · answered by ALEGNA 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're not ready to move out on your own yet until you've put a good amount of money in the bank......when I was your age I started working at the age of 15 so I was able to put money away in the bank while I was in high school. Rent is very high....you need to have saved several months of rent before you even decide to move out on your own. Change jobs if you don't make enough to save anything.
2006-12-01 20:00:21 · answer #2 · answered by jazi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this is not what you want to hear, but here it is.... Don't move out. If your parents allow you to stay with them while you're going to college, take advantage of that. That's the help they're giving you.
If you move out now and saddle yourself with expenses that must get paid, it will eventually interfere with your schooling. As things stand right now, if school gets hard, you can cut down on your work hours. If you had rent and utilities and.... all that stuff hanging over you, you couldn't do that.
2006-12-01 19:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to tough it out and stick with your parents until you graduate. Or, you can become a part-time student and start working. Too many students today are victims of marketing and peer pressure. They work to buy things that they don't really need. So, tough it out. It's life.
2006-12-01 21:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by Morpheous 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋