my advice is quick and easy.
If you get out of school and get that big ID job and start making money, save 10%.
If you get out of school and don’t make alot of money, save 5 - 10 %
this career has been so unpredictable for me, I really needed to have a solid finacial strategy in place. the income over my career, in full time positions intermixed with layoffs, has been roughly 45k->58k->20k->57k->25k->67k->40k
kind of makes buying a house or having a family tough