<prompt> Human: Hello everyone! This will be a quick post Just started making money 50k per year and its beautiful!My job offers:-pension from the state-403b allowed to put 18k per year in-healthvisiondental insurance 100monthI have a savings roughly around 5k and I would like to start doing something with the money. I am in my mid 20s and would like to save for a house. Ive checked out:-CDs-money market savings-old fashioned savings account -mutual funds is it too big of a risk-stocks -cryptocurrenciesId like to make the most of my money and help it grow as soon as I can. Which direction should I choose? Most certainly a novice at this stuff, have yet to set up the 403b yet.Also most importantly I have a student loan at 8k right now and CC debt about 500. Do yall recommend paying all that off before investing money?Thanks!  <response>: Pay off you debt then start saving. Start with the 500 and throw any extra at that. Really you should just take the money out of your savings to pay it off and be done with it. Once that is paid off, take the money you were paying towards the CC and put it all on the student loans. Once you pay off the CC, your budget stays the same, you are just putting the money towards a different bill. Once that 8k is done, then you start saving for the house. 