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> I have wasted my youth so far by studying, working jobs I hate and playing video games. I would like to see more of the world and be less depressed in life

Please listen to the cautious advice in this thread. Imagine you stretch your 50k over a year or two of traveling. You come back home. What's changed? You're back to living a depressed vidya life working shit jobs except you are now 50k poorer. I know because this is exactly what I did in my 20s and now I'm in my 30s and making way less money than anyone else I know in my age bracket. Do I have a bunch of cool travel stories? Sure, but they aren't paying the bills. The guys who I was making fun in my 20s for being boring and focusing on their careers? Yeah they're making bank and can actually afford to travel comfortably unlike me.

Your number 1 priority right now needs to be taking that godsend of starting capital your stupid ass stumbled into and doing absolutely everything you can to not fuck it up and grow it into a bigger pile. Take a three month emergency fund from that pile and stick it in a high yield savings account. Put the rest of it in a broad market ETF. SPY, QQQ, VOO, VTI, doesn't matter which ones really. Give yourself a yearly travel budget. 5k for an annual trip or 2.5k for two trips. Draw down from your ETFs to fund those only when you need to. Everything you earn put it in the ETFs. Do not sell even if the market goes down. Do not stock pick, trade or chase mooning shitcoins, you're too fucking stupid for any of those things. You're also too fucking stupid to magically change your life with some grand traveller plan. Start small. Even an overnight road trip to a neighboring town will get you out of a mental rut. If you're in Western Europe you're within a few hours of hundreds of historically significant towns.

And for God's sake man if you've got time to waste on vidya you've got time to address the fact that you're working deadend jobs. Fix that first.

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I have roughly $50,000 saved and would like to travel