What to Do with Your First Paycheck

The money hits your account, rent and the car payment come out, and the rest just disappears. Nobody ever explained what you were supposed to do with a paycheck, and everyone online seems to assume you already know.

This audiobook gives you the order. Seven money decisions, one per chapter, taught in the sequence that stops them from cancelling each other out: setting up the right accounts, catching the free money in your workplace retirement match, building a starter emergency fund, clearing expensive credit card debt, automating a first index fund transfer, pricing your lifestyle creep before it prices you, and protecting what you have built. Each chapter follows a twenty-something facing a real number, like a $2,400 paycheck or a $380 car payment, gives you one action to complete this week, and closes with a single line you can remember on payday.

A year from now your money has a place to go before you touch it, and you know exactly why. Press play before your next paycheck, and start with decision one.