Debt sucks. And debt after college sucks even more. I remember when I was a freshman and I first signed the promissory notes and handed off the co-signer forms to my mother. I had no idea what I was doing. I had convinced myself that going to school and getting a degree would secure my […]
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“Don’t buy things that you can’t afford.” A few years back when Steve Martin hosted Saturday Night Live, there was a hilarious infomercial sketch for a debt-management book called “Don’t buy things that you can’t afford.” No matter how many times the spokesman explained to the couple the title, theory, and financial plan—all of which
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What do you do when you’ve spent sixty grand (give or take a few tens of thousands) on an education, land yourself the “perfect job” and then realize you picked the wrong career? Few things can be more devastating than coming to the comprehension that your years of hard work and determination have launched you
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So the time has come. You’ve played your last card and, for whatever reason, the only option left is to pack your things and move back to the place from whence you came… home. While this option is becoming more acceptable, still, many college grads see it as a failure; a last-resort that equivocates admitting
There is very little in life more discouraging than spending thousands and thousands of dollars on an education only to find no one willing to give you a job and a chance. At a time in your life when the college loan bills start pouring in, your home is in limbo, your relationships and friendships
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The big question…what are the best cities for recent college grads? Where to live? I am going to write this guessing that you don’t know. I have a gut feeling that you wouldn’t be reading this article if you’re happily settled, no longer concerned about finding a job after college, with a mortgage and roots
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Adjusting to life after college…If you managed to make it through college without your head in a toilet at some random party and a hangover that lasted until dinner time, after which you started drinking again, then, well, you really deserve some sort of medal. No, I’m serious. I’m not going to get into the
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There is no time like now if you’re an explorer at heart! Where to go after college is one of the many difficult decisions you may face after graduation. Whether you attended online colleges and universities or on campus degrees, the one thing you may take for granted is that now, for the first time in your
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For me, college was the ultimate anecdote to a lonely and awkward high school experience. I had so few friends and so little confidence upon entering college that I was terrified! Within my first year in school, I had befriended more people than I can even remember. And it was just the beginning… College is
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Even if you were an unfashionable, awkward, honor-list geek in high school – like me – chances are that you finally found love in college. I mean, really – how can one go through four years of constant contact with hundreds, if not thousands, of other young, eager, excited specimens of the opposite sex, not
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