It’s a pretty common story, one that thousands of recent grads have experienced. You finished school, and maybe you’re tired of the city where you studied. Maybe you were raised in a small town like I was, and you feel that it’s time to start your adult life completely anew in an exciting city filled […]
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Freelance work can either be the work-at-home dream that many people hope for or it can be a stop-gap measure as you struggle to find gainful employment. On the one hand, it allows you to work for yourself and to potentially make far more money on your own than you ever would working for someone
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The months leading up to graduation are wildly exhilarating. All that you’ve worked for the past four years is finally coming full circle: you’re about to walk the stage and head out into the real world. Congratulations! When graduation is three to six months away, it’s easy to think that you have plenty of time
So NerdWallet’s Turning It Into A Reality Show! We here at NerdWallet are launching the first personal finance reality show, So You Think You Can Finance. The show will follow five young people on the road to financial independence as they compete in financial challenges. Winner gets $1,000, and free sessions with a Certified Financial
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Setting off to seek your fortune abroad? Congratulazioni! Before you saunter off into the sunset, however, take a moment and run through this simple five-step checklist to make sure your financial bases are covered. 1. Make a budget It’s simple, but effective: creating a reasonable budget before you leave the country is personal financial management
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All throughout my years in college, I made a valiant effort to avoid getting into any kind of serious relationship. I wanted to have absolutely no attachments during college so I would be able to leave for New York – like I had always planned to – at the end of college. Unfortunately, love hit
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When I first graduated from college I didn’t exactly have a clear-cut plan on what to do next with my life. I just knew that I wanted to write. So that’s what I did – I wrote and I wrote as fast as I could. I wrote poems, children’s stories, short stories and started novels.
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett Spoiler alert Despite the extremely depressing nature of Beckett’s body of work, what you are about to read is an uplifting guest post that is going to do its damnedest to reassure you that the big, dark world you’ve graduated
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One of the biggest challenges to getting out of debt is that all of your expenses add up to more than your income. This is the challenge for many recent college graduates who are still living the dream of their college experience long after the music’s died away. Even if you weren’t a party person,
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For most my life, I’ve been immensely lucky. Throughout my young adulthood, I’ve obtained great grades, worked exciting jobs, cultivated long-lasting relationships, and adopted numerous useful hobbies. In fact, there isn’t one thing I’d go back and change if I had to. Well….let’s take that back. There is one thing. From the day I first
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