My side gig is professional software dev training/courses. I've also just been soaking up all there is about FIRE and investing in the past month. I've thought, maybe in a year or two, once I have a better handle myself that it might be fun/informative to do an actual "real world" personal finance series of videos for "regular" people. Would that be interesting to anyone? My major worry is all the math/complexities with so many different terms and situations. I'm admittedly terrible at math (which is why I appreciate all the worksheets and calculators). I'd want it heavily peer reviewed and fact-checked. Besides a course series, I've also thought about translating some of the awesome worksheets and calculators out here into a full open source user-friendly financial tool. I'm a software engineer and build applications full-time so I have the means, plus it'd be helpful if only to learn the calculations myself more deeply.
I'm super disappointed that in my 30 years of being alive, I've never been sat down by someone and told any of this stuff or even encouraged to by parents/friends/relatives. Same with my wife. I learned only when required, like how health insurance worked, 401k, etc. and obviously, I still missed out on fundamentals and totally disregarded investing because it seemed impossible to understand. I know I would have (and still would) appreciate a real world course on navigating personal finances.
