>>65567115Sit your ass down and read about index exchange-traded funds (ETFs)--they're literally all you need to know about at the start when you're young and getting started.
Dump all the money you want to invest into a Roth IRA, TFSA, or whatever other tax-advantaged account available in your country first, because it's highly likely that you're not making enough to take advantage of the other types of accounts yet.
Find and buy into a couple broad market index ETFs (these will follow something like the top 1000 performing stocks in the US market or 50% US, 30% EU, 20% international/emerging, etc. stocks) and just keep investing regularly into it--be disciplined and don't fucking dare touch any of it until you're closer to retirement or want to rebalance based on your financial goals; the market is going to go on wild upswings and downswings, but time is your friend and on a long enough time horizon (on the scale of >5 years to decades), your investments will inevitbly rise in value (if the opposite happens, then money is going to be the last of your problems).
Actively-managed (including professionally) portfolios have statistically always done worse or at best equal to just passively investing in index ETFs; don't be a dumbass and just let math and time in the market do the work for you (the stereotypical saying here is "time in the market beats timing the market"). Spend the time you save worrying about investments to improve your skills, life, and happiness instead, which will be much more worthwhile (you basically have to hit 8 figures of worth before doing advanced technical analysis is actually worth your time (and probably life expectancy from the stress as well)).
Nothing in life is easy but you just need to make small strides, one at a time, to make sense of it all. I didn't know anything until I spent unreasonable amounts of time reading about all of this with my first job. Just don't give up--good luck.
