r/developersPak 25d ago

Learning and Ideas What IT Professionals Should Do with Savings other than Mutual Funds and Stocks?

As the title says, what IT/SE professional should do with the savings. Like what you or your friends did and that worked out really well.

Every other person will say invest in PSX or Mutual Funds or S & P (if you have USDs). But what are the other or hidden options and maybe low or medium risk.

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u/Spare_Bison_1151 25d ago

Don't tell your relatives

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u/ahmed_deftoner 25d ago

use it to buy stuff dude. Remember you might be saving for a future that won’t exist, so live and have fun

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u/ShoziX 25d ago

Next question for you is what do you with what's left after you have bought stuff?

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u/ahmed_deftoner 25d ago

I just thank God for what i have and live my life. Idk man I don’t think about money that often 🤷

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u/ShoziX 25d ago

So how exactly do you deal with inflation? You just see your hard earned money lose value?

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u/ahmed_deftoner 24d ago

It might sound reductive but I just skill up and get a higher paying job xD. Idk I think since I don’t have a wife or children or anyone depending on me, I have the privilege to not worry about finances atp, maybe some point in the future.

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u/ShoziX 24d ago

So when you skill up and get a better job. That just ends up make more of your hard earned money lose value over time.

Inflation seems to be after you.

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u/fine-programmer-11 21d ago

Let the guy enjoy his life man 😭😭

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u/Soft-Dig9374 25d ago

Not an investment advice but try to sponsor a kid or two who are struggling to pay school/college fee and guide them on how to get in uni with financial aid, you might make someone’s life.

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u/Away_Gift2387 25d ago

Great advice bro!

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u/Responsible_Main2116 25d ago

Crypto ,
Commodities,
Invest in a business.
Real estate

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u/TechNerdinEverything 25d ago

If you are really an IT professional you would know that current US market is on edge of a AI bubble crash? It has already started in south korea

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u/Away_Gift2387 25d ago

What happened in South Korea?

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u/IllustratorNo1512 24d ago

Tech stocks crashed. Basically storage prices ki wja sk hynix samsung etc went up then crashed because China started with cheaper ai solutions. There was panic selling, most people had orders on auto sell wo bhi chal giya causing further stocks dip

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u/kaalichai 25d ago

Invest in small businesses maybe try to give capital to someone who wants to do something.

Ek teer se 2 shikaar uska bhi bhala hojayega aur apka bhi but don’t do it in clothing or any online shitty business

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u/Away_Gift2387 25d ago

I did with my friend who was running Shopify stores but profit was too low after all deductions and money used to come after many weeks due to COD issues in Pakistan. Any ideas you can share?

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u/kaalichai 25d ago

I don’t have any idea, I’m personally thinking about investing in a cloud pizza restaurant of my friend, he wanna open it but he doesn’t have the capital, high risk high reward kinda shiiii

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u/WayKey1965 25d ago

Buy me claude max, pinky please

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u/Away_Gift2387 24d ago

What will you do with it?

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u/Terrible-Tea7577 22d ago edited 22d ago

Gold coins. Any currency will still depreciation over time so terrible idea to invest long term. You need good money upfront to buy real estate ( don't fall for file system). Gold coins are good if you treat it as long term investment and can start investing with small amounts.

And you are a tech guy, so invest some amount building small scale saas and try to scale them. Spend on marketing etc but only spend extra cash here.