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Let’s face it. For many of you, college is the first time in your lives when you have to manage your own finances, away from the watchful eyes of your parents. You now have to pay bills, handle budgets, find a bank, and be faced with choices around credit cards and insurance.
"Learn how to manage these few bucks while in school,"Don't try to copy another student's lifestyle my child," our parents would tell this to their innocent kids as they left for every semester. But, does this work?
The final year of college is probably the most overwhelming period of one's school life that no one stops to think about their future investment plan.
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I don’t know whether we, humans, are still evolving or it’s the change in lifestyle, but I will have to admit that kids these days are quite sharp. This intelligence is regardless of their backgrounds.
Do you have that inner confidence in your own abilities? Well, you can call that self-esteem. How we value ourselves, our self-perception on who we are and the beliefs we have on what we can achieve is all self-esteem.
Living a debt-free life is the greatest gift you can give to yourself and your family. The best day of my life was the day I made the last payment on my student loans.