Andrea Contreras, 31, lives in Austin, Texas and earns 5,000 a year as a social media advisor at GoDaddy. Five years ago she had a negative bank balance, but Andrea recently purchased her first home.
This is the latest installment of Millennial Money, which profiles people across the U.S. and details how they earn and spend their money.
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Looking around her one-bedroom apartment, Andrea Contreras gazes from the guitar collection on the wall to the Gucci-inspired sweatshirt her Yorkie mix, Kuzco, wears. She can’t believe it’s all hers.
“Five years ago, I had nothing,” the 31-year-old remembers. Years of partying in her early 20s landed Contreras in a dark place: She had no money, no support system and no goals for her future.
But today, things look vastly different. Contreras has family and friends to turn to in hard times and a career she enjoys. Plus, her apartment is full of furniture and keepsakes that she bought herself. “It’s such a blessing to see everything in here, when I had literally nothing,” she says.
As a social media advisor at GoDaddy, Contreras sells social media assistance programs to small business clients across the U.S. She earns a base salary of just ,000, but with commissions from her sales, she pulled in around 5,000 before taxes last year. She not only lives well in Austin, Texas, and supports herself financially, but she’s comfortable with the direction her life is going.
“If I want to go on vacation, I can take a vacation. If I want to help someone out, I can help someone out,” she says.
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