Well, one safe investment you can do is to invest in yourself learn new skills and start supplying your skills in the market. Like professional writers do. By providing their writing skills to online business owners all around the world. Or you can learn some new IT skills.
Hadn't checked back in on this thread in a while so only just saw this one.
That is eventually the goal, but I have some shorter term financial goals that I have set that I would like to hit before branching out. I'm in a pretty fortunate position with a relatively small mortgage for my age and a decent paying job. But with the way the world is at the moment I still need to shore some things up in order to get to the things that really interest me.
Also if anyone cared, I decided to go against investing with squirrel. For now. 👀