Thread 712433163

Just got my $5000 bonus for excellence in my field from work. Want to buy a console and some video game and/or upgrade my rig (3080) and get some PC games.
I rarely have this much cash and I want to splurge a little for once.

>>712433163 (OP)
Buy Expedition 33. It's the best new game we've gotten in about a decade. Most people seem to like it.
3080 should run it just fine, but a sweet 5090 won't hurt.
Or get a PS5 Pro. I've heard it runs fine there too, but there aren't a lot of other great games on the platform.

>>712433163 (OP)
>$5000 bonus
Are you a fucking CEO? What company pays 5 grand as a BONUS? Also what company pays out bonuses during summer? I thought that was an end-of-fiscal-year thing?

>>712433310
normal non service industry jobs have bonuses. 5k isn't outlandish at all

>>712433310
I get that for my end of financial year bonus and I'm just a grunt, and it's not even individually assessed just "did we hit targets"

>>712433310
>CEO
Nah, I'm a small time project advisor. Nothing flashy.
Like >>712433472 said, my company does bonuses twice a year, but I'm usually not very good with my money so I rarely have this much all at once. I'm good with project budgets just not my own.

>>712433163 (OP)

Perhaps get a Switch 2? They're the new hotness. Or you could get a Deck if you want something powerful right now, >>712433224 is probably a shill but E33 is legitimately good and you should at least play it on whatever you end up with. I personally think the new Xbox Ally handheld thing looks neat but that's not out yet and I'm assuming you want to splurge now not later.

>>712433163 (OP)
>>712433571
I don't get my bonuses twice a year but my last bonus I got myself a brand new PC and a nice monitor.
Although, boring take: if you're not good with money and you KNOW you're not you should probably save it, put it in a good high-yield account or something clever.

I have never understood the "bad with money" meme. You have a finite amount of money on your account, every X days you get Y more added to that. Don't let it hit 0.
There, that's literally it. You are officially "good with money".

>>712434185
Just look at OP. He got a little bit of extra money, enough to buy a 20 year old used car and he wants to spend it on toys not save/invest it.

>>712434185
i'd also add to this "don't take up loans unless it's extremely critical"
there is no such thing as a "good loan", every loan given to you is for the profit of the loaner, it might not look like much on the paper you sign but those percentages add up

>>712434370
>invest
kek what's to invest in?
ever since the orange man got in the house stocks have plummeted
you're not seriously arguing for a shitcoin i hope?

>>712434871
a savings account or an index fund
obviously I'm not going to tell you to buy my nfts

>>712434989
oh, yeah saving it's probably a good idea
depending on where you live you can get some pretty nice high-yield savings accounts
my brother's big into index funds but he pulled out this year

>>712434871
You should donate that money to Israel.

>>712435101
Or Palestine :)

>>712434989
>>712435086
Index funds are -generally- a good idea. I'd hold off on it a little now though, they seem to be a bit rickety at the moment.

>>712434871

lmao, just burn the money if you're so stupid you're still spouting headlines from three months ago. Anything you do with the money will be a waste.

>>712435618

He's right though. Literally none of the big tech giants are back to where they were at the start of the year after the 30% dive.

>>712433224
This is a good recommendation. Also maybe save some of it like /vbiz/ above are arguing.

>>712433163 (OP)

Perhaps pay down your mortgage or student loans or something instead of wasting your money on pointless trash.

>>712433163 (OP)
give me a grand for warhammer mate

>>712435417
without context that dip means nothing

>>712433310
>neet outs himself at not even understanding personal finance-tier numbers
I know you scrounge to live on $5,000 a year, but that’s a normal amount for a bonus in a ‘real and normal’ job.

>>712435618
You really think all of the stock reports are a lie, and the tariffs are going to pay off big any day now, don't you? MIGA, brother.

>>712438393
This. My dad's a mechanic (no fancy engineering just car shit) and he got 8k last year. Though if OP gets 5k twice a year that's a pretty good extra chunk next to his salary I presume.

>>712433310
My wife made like 100k in bonuses last year

>>712438940

That's probably pretty rare though. Your wife has made more than twice in bonuses what the median income per person is in America.
It's surreal to think the average American only makes 37k and they think that shit is "the sweat off your brow".

>>712439108
It's more than Euros make because we don't pay 50% in taxes.

>>712439272
I make 65k/year after taxes at a very mid-end job.
t. Euro

>>712433571
>I'm usually not very good with my money so I wanna waste it all asap
lol

>>712433310
I got an $8k bonus this year and I'm a software developer...

>>712439272
on the bright side most euros have never seen a health insurance bill in their life

>>712439552
They probably haven't gotten shot at either.

>>712438940
Bet she goes on a lot of business trips

>>712439552
Why do you think we pay 75% taxes silly

>>712433163 (OP)
buy a switch 2 and put the rest in crypto then sell in half a year when it's up like 30% and buy a pc upgrade when prices are fixed

>>712433163 (OP)
You are supposed to go on a trip to Thailand with that kind of money not buy faggy video game gear. Hopeless loser.

Buy a used motorcycle. Ride it to r next town over for a cheeseburger. On your way back stop at a bookstore and get some sci fi books.
Or just throw it in your investment account

>>712433163 (OP)
>$5k
Damn, maybe I should also get into gay male prostitution

>>712435238
No, all money in the world belongs to G-d's Chosen People.

>>712439927
>Or just throw it in your investment account
this

>>712433310
Nigga I got €16000 as a bonus last year and I'm a software dev in fucking Europe. Average yearly income here is around €35k.

>>712439664
Nah, just to Jamaica with friends.

This board should have flags on it.

>>712442449
but that would prove that half of you people are Indian

>>712433163 (OP)
Buy a garbage bag's worth of chimichangas