Get Your First Job

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Young-Professionals-black-and-white Getting accepted for your first job is one of the first achievements you will attain right after you graduated from college. This will get you excited and eager to work harder each day especially when you first hear that you’ll be getting your first pay check! They say, earning money is a lot harder than spending it. We spend days and even a month to save up for a certain stuff but only managed to hold onto that big amount for a short time until we bid goodbye to our hard-earned money. Together, let us learn some simple ways to take advantage of our wages to reach our financial goals. The following listed are ones I found useful that could be used as a reference for writing my own financial goal list for …show more content…

I ate at expensive restaurants, wherein I couldn’t afford yet when I was still in college. Tried a number of food varieties for my own pleasure. For starters, this I found this already rewarding since I got to eat something better than anything I ate when I was still in student budget. I didn’t mind spending over the top just for the quality of food, which I chose to reward myself after a month’s worth of heavy labour. how-to-cook-healthy-meals-at-home Now that I’ve thought of it, everything that I’ve spent for the last few years only went into nowhere. It seems silly to think of saving up by eating at home, right? However, when I came to think about it seriously, I realized that it’s actually true! Though it could be a little tempting when I discover new restaurants and eat out for a while, I actually saved more than a half of my usual eating expenditures for quite some time. I learned to cook the simpler version of the restaurant recipes at home while sharing it with the entire family for a way lesser amount than at the diners. Backpacking during …show more content…

I recalled my overspending habits using the debit cards or ATM cards, and I felt my spirits dropped. This is when I started to leave them at home for the fear of using them again impulsively. I began to achieve the things written in my financial goal list little by little through this simple act, and it made me feel motivated again to keep saving. For quite some time, I only bring enough cash when going to the mall to avoid buying unnecessary stuffs. Keep a Short List to Buy I never listened to my family whenever they tell me to list down what I need to buy when going to the mall or even the grocery. I mean, I’m not old enough to forget what I needed to be done by the end of the day. Turns out, I get to buy things way out of my budget during grocery shopping since I tend pick up everything useful for our household. images (3) The next week, I went to the grocery again with my short goal list on my hand. Before I know it, I managed to get everything listed there for a short span of time. Also, I noticed that I’ve bought only the necessary stuffs and not the not-so-important stuffs from the

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