24yo Federal Civilian

24yo Federal Civilian

1 year as a Fed employee. I started at paycheck contributions of 5% traditional and with my promotion recently I changed to 6% traditional, 1% roth. I plan to increase it more once I am settled in and save a little more money in HYSA.

I have 58% in L fund, 20% in C, 11% in S, and 11% in I funds. Any advice for setting myself up for success?? I have no idea what I’m doing and am the first fed employee in my family so i dont really have someone I can ask questions about TSP.

u/OtherwiseDisplay7058 — 5 days ago

LIB - UK: what exactly is Ryans job?

On ep6 of LIB UK. I don’t mean this as hate or anything and maybe I’m not familiar since I’m from the US. But what does Ryan do as a “public speaker”? Like do companies hire him to talk about their products or is he like an influential public speaker? I am just confused. Thanks! :)

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u/OtherwiseDisplay7058 — 2 months ago

Passed Sec+

Passed Sec+ last weekend with a 773. No prior cybersecurity experience.

I did a bootcamp course sponsored by my job, then I reread the textbook on CompTIA (that type of learner), did the practice questions for each chapter, watched Professed Messers videos and asked ChatGPT on topics I didn’t have a good grasp on, bought and took Dion’s practice exams like 4-5 times. I also downloaded the CompTIA practice app and Pocket Prep - I was just trying to constantly get myself thinking through and being exposed to questions. Took about 2.5 months to study because of having a full time job + job travel. Might have been overkill but was worried about my lack of experience.

Couldn’t even answer one of the PBQs because I didn’t have enough time.

Thank you to this group it honestly helped me find resources for studying.

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u/OtherwiseDisplay7058 — 3 months ago

Exam prep

Hi yall. I’m wanting to schedule my exam end of this month. I took a week long bootcamp at the end of April and have been re-reading the textbook along with doing practice questions, PBQs, and labs. I’ve been using the comp tia app for practice questions too.

Is this enough? Should I try Dion tests too? I’m worried my prep isn’t enough and this cert is a work requirement.

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u/OtherwiseDisplay7058 — 4 months ago