Hey.
Just wanted to link Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s blog. Good, healthy reading.
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I’ve been avoiding my blog.
When we last left off, I was waiting to hear if I got in to Centennial’s Corporate Communications program. I consider the weeks I’ve been away to be one long commercial break.
To make a long story short, while I was waiting to hear about Centennial I got a great job at a newswire company… so I won’t be going to Centennial in September–or in January. What can I say? I heard strange new words like ’salary’, ‘benefits’, and ‘paid vacation’ and I was hooked.
I’ll probably go back to school some day, but not now. I’d rather get in a classroom without having to worry about debt. I want to get my money right first. And going back to school would mean going further in to debt.
The job has been great, though. The funny thing was that after going on more than ten unsuccessful interviews, this was going to be my last application. So I guess it was fate?
It fascinates me that students in elementary, high school, college and university are never taught how to properly manage their own money.
They’re taught how to make babies, stay fit, calculate change at the grocery store, how the French got here first, pythegorem (sp?) theory, “career management” (whatever that is), etc. But not how to manage a credit card or save for retirement.
So they may sing along to Kanye West, but after borrowing thousands of dollars from the government to pay for two to four years of post-secondary education (if they needed it), and being miseducated (or not educated at all) about money, when will any student with up to $20,000 in student loans (not to mention credit card debt) ever get their money right?
