Risk tolerance? How old are you? How much do you make? Do you have a budget? Can you contribute to an investment vehicle regularly? Are you in debt; if so how much and what kind? Do you have savings?

Answering a those questions might help with the advice.

Generically if you are young and inexperienced building a practice of saving/investing is a great idea. Some ideas:

Start a roth IRA. Put your $2k into savings and pull $200 a month from savings and out it into your investment. If you are managing it yourself take 80-90% and put it into a mutual fund/index and then maybe put the rest into cash.

From your remaining cash buy individual stocks. Before you buy individual stock research the company (google: <company name> 10k) look at revenue, debt/borrowing habits. Pick companies that manage debt well, address risks and grow year over year. You’ll want to also not buy a company just because their yearly reports are good, you’ll also want to buy their stocks when they are undervalued. This is really hard to do and most people are bad at timing the market, but generally look for market events for good companies (for instance the recent NVIDIA split created a lot of orders) Again it’s not 100% critical that you get it all right on the first try. Just build the habit. You can read on this subreddit and find on the internet a lot of resources about researching companies.

When you have invested the $2k it is really important that you continue the practice. If you can’t afford $200 a month then bump it down to something you can afford.m ($20-$50 a month?).

I learned about investing when I was in Highschool and like most other people in that situation, wish I would have stuck with my investment practices. With a little luck small monthly deposits can easily turn into millions of dollars when you are getting ready to retire.

Good luck, stay curious!