<prompt> Human: Im a 27 year old that has spent most of my life living on my own. I moved out of my mothers home my father was not around when I was 17. I went to community college for a bit but just could not focus myself at the time because honestly, I was a pothead and an alcoholic. At 27 now, Ive been sober for 5 years. My father recently passed about a year and a half ago, and as it turns out, he had a partial share in land that was once useless and unsellable; but has now become part of the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota.For the last year Ive received about 120k before taxes from annuity payments from the Trust, I now hold a larger 16 of it...Total payout is around 1.5m last year, but thats among 16 descendants. . My siblings and myself sold his house for about 300k so my earning are just over 220k as of the moment.I do not know how long these payments will come, but quarterly between early 2013 and now checks have been in the range of 20-50k.The oil wont last forever, and Id like to buy a house and just continue working, I dont think Im cut out for college. What would be a good long term investment strategy for someone in my situation?Edit: Wow, I did not expect this kind of response. Thank you guys so much for youre advice. Of course I cant figure out what Im going to do overnight. I understand this is sort of a windfall, for all I know the land could stop producing oil next month it is fracking after all, who knows what will happen. Thank all of you so much and Ill try to reply to every comment if possible.Assistant: It depends on what your job is and your current income. If you can live comfortably off of what you are making now, invest all the money from the sale into retirement and a three fund portfolio. Human: I only make about 1,200 dollars a month after taxes at my current job. I work as a server at a catering company.Assistant: Is there a job with room for improvement you are interested in? Construction, or carpentry, or something? Or are you looking to stay a server?Human: Ive built computers since I was a kid, its my favorite hobby, but the market is so flooded with tech that its almost impossible to get a job, especially going to school for it as such a late age.  <response>: Might need to change locations andor increase your skill-set.Money in tech isnt in building computers. The Dells and HPs of the world turned desktops and laptops into commodities long ago. The money is in programming, networking, system administration, consulting, database, storage, and security. If you can get your Network cert or even A, you should be able to find a 12-15hr tech support job. 15 an hour is about 2000 a month full-time. You can definitely afford those certs haha...they only cost around 400. 