<prompt> Human: Please help me budget my life.Im 23 and work in the culinary industry- I really enjoy my career, but it is not a line of work that pays the big bucks. I work full time as a line cook and make about 1,800 post-tax each month.After saving very little in my younger adult years, I spent the past few living well below my means. Ive been able to put away about 10k of cash and 3k into a 401k with a 2060 target date. Since Ive gotten pulled in by the mobile investing craze, Ive also put 3k into an Acorns account and bought a couple shares of AMT on RobbinHood as well, the latter being more for fun better than lotto tickets. I also have no outstanding debts and no major life expenses didnt go to school, Ive kept my first car alive since I was a teenager, dont own my house, not married, no kids.My rent and utilities add up to about 550month this is about the best you can do for a habitable house in my area, gas is about 80, food is only 100 since I get a lot of meals from the restaurant and dont drink, my car insurance and upkeep is 160, cell-phone is 60, Im on my dads health insurance, but additional medical costs add up to about 50month. This leaves me with about 800month to do whatever I want with. I want to know what I should do with this money and what I should do with the cash I already have. How much of that 800 should go to my discretionary spending and how much into investments I just opened a Fidelity Roth IRA? Im in my 3rd year in the field- I could reasonably expect to increase to maybe 25k by my 5th, 30-40 by my 10th, so I wont see a significant change in my income anytime soon. The only new expenses I see popping up in the next few years are a new car in a year or so, and health insurance when I turn 26. For a car, Id like something dependable- in the 8-10K range- so I will need some cash for the down payment. Other than that, nothing should change. So how much cash do I reasonably need? Should I put some of that 10k away into an investment account? How much of that 800 per month should be invested and how much should I keep for discretionary spending? I dont really know anyone who has started an investment account or really thinks about budgetingsaving for the future, so I have nobody to ask for advice from.Any help is greatly appreciated.  <response>: Sounds like youre doing fine man. At 23 I was busy blowing paychecks on weed and booze. Keep it up. 