I bought my favourite celica today. Its not the flashiest and is in auto but at only 220k on the dash and 5.3k aud I'm super happy.
Anything I should do in terms of preventative maintainence?
What should be the first upgrades? Theres a couple dents so I'm thinking I want to buy the vader bodykit. Also redoing interior as its a bit scruffy.
Should I buy this? I talked him down to $5200 aud, Its an australian 5sfe auto. I know not the most fun engine setup but I quite like the idea of the reliability of the 5sfe. I'm buying the car more for the body and plan to do an interior refit and perhaps buy the vader bodykit. I know I'm overpaying a bit but where I live these cars are a bit more difficult to come by. Its got 220,000 on the dash and the owner is a bit ambigous about its history.
What do we think, good purchase?
Hey everyone, I am freshly 18 and in university doing a bachelors in Marketing and Design. I work two casual jobs one of which I am probably going to be made practically redundant by when the new laws about adult wages are enabled.
I have a paid off car, and my parents aren't going to kick me out any time soon.
I recently just hit a savings goal for my emergency fund of $5,000. This is after saving 500 a week for the last 10 weeks. I used to be pretty terrible at saving but I've gotten significantly better at it recently.
I could quite reasonably start saving for a house deposit now. Not that I'd ever purchase one until I got a full-time position that pays enough to cover mortgage though.
or I could start a business.
I have been a very business minded person my whole life and have tried and failed before with more or less success. I have an idea, it's in the jewelry industry using a technology that hasn't really been tried before but lowers my cost of production significantly whilst keeping quality similar and offering a unique feature I haven't seen before in the market. The genre is more specifically in mostly custom mid-range priced pieces. The equipment I need is actually relatively inexpensive and I'm a hobbyist so I've accrued most of it over the years.
rather, the expensive part is the marketing that I would like to do when I launch my first product. having worked managing meta adspend budgets before for a small business I know that I'm going to need around 5-10k minimum for ad creation and spend. I do have a plan of how I can reduce costs for this as much as possible but I think the opening budget is still relatively non-negotiable. This capital I would save would also cover any other extra business costs.
I plan to distribute through ecommerce, but also at markets and whatnot. Whilst I'm saving for capital I would be working on product development and organic low cost marketing.
My Dream is to own and run a business. But I've also always understood I'm not the kind of person that can drop everything to work on one. I would still be working the same as I am now until the business revenue is enough to sustain itself and me.
So let me know, do be a reasonable and responsible young man and finish my degree with great savings, find a stable job and own a home some day?
Or save up to start a business, maybe eventually outgrow whatever income I would make at a regular job and enjoy myself signifcantly more?
EDIT:
Apologies, forgot to mention I live in Australia.