This week we discuss our personal themes for 2022, Julia recounts Covid craziness and we tackle the age-old argument around following your passion vs. making money. Oh…and we talk about asset diversification. Like ya do. Here are links to some helpful things we referenced and the two questions we answered.
Student Loan Planner: https://www.studentloanplanner.com/
You Need A Budget: https://www.youneedabudget.com/
Q1 - My partner and I are approaching a major change in our life. She will be graduating from law school at the end of the year (I'm so proud of her!) and will start working in her career. She feels pressured to look for jobs that are higher paying because of the law school student debt. I don't want her to go into a sector for the money instead of passion.
Also, I have been working for several years and have paid off my student debt in that time on my own. We keep finances separate, except shared expenses where she pays a smaller percentage from less work time due to school.
I want to make her student debt a shared expense, but she is resistant to agreeing. How do we compromise on this topic?
Q2 - What distribution of assets would you recommend? What percentage of my savings should be in real estate, stocks, cash, etc..?