u/mansfieldprice

I’m graduating college soon with $45k to my name, mostly thanks to my current job (night shift, 30 hours a week, $25k post tax). I’m currently applying to fellowships and jobs that would cover my expenses (I live extremely frugally) and optimistically provide $10-15k in savings. I don’t have a degree in anything that would make me anything above $40/50k in my first year of working. If I kept my current job and put all my yearly earnings into my savings and investments, I could get to $80k net worth by the time I’m 24, and then hopefully $100k by 25.

My job has been easy enough to balance with college, but obviously a 9 to 5 will be a lot more demanding on my time and energy than classes (which I schedule around my job/sleep). The only reason I’m thinking of keeping my night job is because it’s so chill and the company I work for is great. It’s basically a remote desk warming job where I have to be logged on from 2 am to 8 am and do tasks. As long as I stay logged on and am active on my tasks, I can literally do almost anything I want (workout, cook + meal prep, clean, study, etc.). This job has been a blessing for me during college because of how chill the tasks and my coworkers are.

I’m very money-focused right now, and my instinct is to just go for it so I can save as much money as possible before I turn 25, but I wanted to get a broader perspective. Doing this would mean working from 2 am to 8 am, then 9 am to 5 pm, every weekday. Again, I’d be able to get a lot of stuff done during my night job, but I would still only have ~1 hour not working on weekdays. Would it be worth working 70 hours every week for one year to save $35 to 40k (versus $10 to 15k)? Should I just focus on doing the best I can at my first post-grad job? Do you think l will just be miserable at a certain point?

I am comfortably B2/C1 in Korean (I used to be C1 when I lived and worked in Korea but feel like I’ve been backsliding), and I’m very interested in learning Japanese. Obviously lots of people say learning Japanese is easier for Korean speakers than English speakers, but I’m worried my Korean isn’t good enough right now to learn another language in. It’s like I can have a conversation, read a book, fully understand TV, but some basic vocabulary still slips my mind.

I’m wondering: is it more helpful to learn my target language using a language I’m proficient in but not fluent, if that language has more in common with my target language (TL), or is it more helpful to focus on learning with maximum understanding via my native language? Has anyone had experience laddering between related languages when you weren’t fluent?