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Starting investing out as a single mom

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May 30, 2026 · 11:40

Not sure if I’m in the right place (the majority of this forum is far above my skill set) but I’m a 29 year old single mom, I work as a police officer and make a good living - but as you all know, a ‘good living’ as a single person with children isn’t enough these days.

I didn’t grow up with parents/or a college education and unfortunately I’ve never learned anything about stocks or finance and have pretty much built everything I had from just pinching pennies and ‘keeping within the budget’.

I’d like to improve our future and have started lightly investing - but I’m kind of going in blind and off of lots of Google research and the news.

Right now I have very small amounts of the following:

VTI
TSLA
BITB
UEC

I apologize if this is the wrong place for this - but I genuinely appreciate any advice or input! Thanks so much!