How to steer the iMac to use an external drive when SSD on start-up drive?

Good day,
As stated elsewhere it is a good practice to have an admin account and a "working" or day-to-day user's account.
Secondly it is recommended to have the OS & the apps on the SSD and "everything else" on another (conventional hard-)disc, because of the peculiarities of a SSD.
So far so good.
My questions is only about how to get there:
Can I have my user account on the SSD (start-up disc) and still load my documents / files / mp3s etc automatically unto the external drive? How can one force the Mac to save "everything else" on the other disc, not in the home folder on the SSD ?
(iMac i3 SSD due today !

i don't quite get it, is this the best way to go?
Would it be a good practice in my users's account to save all documents, mp3s etc into a folder which is actually placed on the external drive?
Is this ok?
bw, O

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