u/red_coww

Main:
AMZN
ASML
MU (see below for more)
MSFT
CAMT
TSM
NVDA
TTWO
SMH
WQTM
LLY
XBI
NUKZ
URA
QQQM
VOO
A200 (asx)

High risk/reward:
PUSA
JFB
UMAC
\-these three stock were chosen because when looking for drone stocks involved in the USA department of war billion dollar allocation towards innovations (drones was one of the main things), none of the main drone companies/tickers seemed to be involved.
After some research I found out the Trumps were backing those three stocks. UMAC was made late 2024 and PUSA (drone company) and JFB (construction/merger company) were both made at a similar time in 2025- as well as the companies they were merging with, Aureus greenways (merger for PUSA) and XTEND (drone company merging with JFB). Considering the trumps suspiciously high success with their trades since Donald Trumps presidency I thought these were worth buying.

Also:
After making 150% profit off of MU, I sold 60% of my shares and moved the profits into 60% MSFT and 20% each URA and NUKZ. I did this because I had already made my profit from MU and even though it has a decent chance of growing a bit I just don’t trust the safety of the AI bubble and especially with controversy and legal issues around RAM production right now

I am 18, this is my last year of school and next year I am taking a gap year before deciding on what to do.
I have one main goal for the gap year: hit 100k (before tax).
My current investment portfolio is work 4K and I have a decent ish idea of what I’m doing.
What are best paths to take from here investment wise and what are best jobs to earn good money without them taking up most of my life next year.

Don’t bother commenting if u wanna say how hard my goal is going to be to achieve or if u wanna call me one of those ‘escape the 9-5 by day trading’ degenerates which I promise, despite what this post makes me sound like, I’m not

Edit: guys I understand this is a very hard goal. I’m not naive enough to assume I can turn 4K into 100k from investing- I’m going to be making 50k next year purely from working and will invest most of it. I only posited this to get advice to best help achieve or come close to this goal. Realistically tho I do believe I will be able to turn 50k into 60-65k considering that 10x smaller gain then I’ve made this year

Main:
AMZN
ASML
MU (see below for more)
MSFT
CAMT
TSM
NVDA
TTWO
SMH
WQTM
LLY
XBI
NUKZ
URA
QQQM
VOO
A200 (asx)

High risk/reward:
PUSA
JFB
UMAC
\-these three stock were chosen because when looking for drone stocks involved in the USA department of war billion dollar allocation towards innovations (drones was one of the main things), none of the main drone companies/tickers seemed to be involved.
After some research I found out the Trumps were backing those three stocks. UMAC was made late 2024 and PUSA (drone company) and JFB (construction/merger company) were both made at a similar time in 2025- as well as the companies they were merging with, Aureus greenways (merger for PUSA) and XTEND (drone company merging with JFB). Considering the trumps suspiciously high success with their trades since Donald Trumps presidency I thought these were worth buying.

Also:
After making 150% profit off of MU, I sold 60% of my shares and moved the profits into 60% MSFT and 20% each URA and NUKZ. I did this because I had already made my profit from MU and even though it has a decent chance of growing a bit I just don’t trust the safety of the AI bubble and especially with controversy and legal issues around RAM production right now

Main:
AMZN
ASML
MU (see below for more)
MSFT
CAMT
TSM
NVDA
TTWO
SMH
WQTM
LLY
XBI
NUKZ
URA
QQQM
VOO
A200 (asx)

High risk/reward:
PUSA
JFB
UMAC
-these three stock were chosen because when looking for drone stocks involved in the USA department of war billion dollar allocation towards innovations (drones was one of the main things), none of the main drone companies/tickers seemed to be involved.
After some research I found out the Trumps were backing those three stocks. UMAC was made late 2024 and PUSA (drone company) and JFB (construction/merger company) were both made at a similar time in 2025- as well as the companies they were merging with, Aureus greenways (merger for PUSA) and XTEND (drone company merging with JFB). Considering the trumps suspiciously high success with their trades since Donald Trumps presidency I thought these were worth buying.

Also:
After making 150% profit off of MU, I sold 60% of my shares and moved the profits into 60% MSFT and 20% each URA and NUKZ. I did this because I had already made my profit from MU and even though it has a decent chance of growing a bit I just don’t trust the safety of the AI bubble and especially with controversy and legal issues around RAM production right now