{"id":74722,"date":"2025-12-18T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74722\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:41:14","slug":"26-year-old-works-at-a-bookstore-and-lives-on-53000-a-year-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74722\/","title":{"rendered":"26-year-old works at a bookstore and lives on $53,000 a year in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Tyrrell, 26, moved to New York City with $3,000, no full-time job, and everything she owned in a rented van. Today, she earns around $53,000 as a bookstore manager and freelancer. She has built a meaningful life while keeping her monthly spending low.<\/p>\n<p>This is an installment of CNBC Make It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/millennial-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Millennial Money<\/a> series, which profiles people across the globe and details how they earn, spend and save their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eileen Tyrrell, 26, moved to New York City with $3,000, no full-time job, and everything she owned in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37640,26210,9,24,55,54,56,37639,3577,21262],"class_list":{"0":"post-74722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bookseller","9":"tag-budgeting","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-personal-budgeting","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-positive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}