The 6 Money Mistakes That Keep You Poor

"the average student loan balance for the class of 2021 was 37,574 dollars while the average college graduate earns just fifty five thousand dollars it makes no sense by taking on debt instead of starting your career and being able to invest right away your priority becomes paying down the debt as fast as possible before interest rates increase even further and what most people don't realize is that the amount of time and money needed to pay down debt while you start a career on the low end of the pay grade can sometimes set you back decades in terms of building your wealth"

"more recently employers are valuing work experience over education with 58 of employers preferring someone with past work experience to someone with good grades"

"when you're starting a career everything from vacation salary benefits health insurance and work from home are negotiable and the more leverage you have and the more convincing you are the higher the chances of getting that approved"

"this also applies to just about every other major purchase that you could think of from the terms of the car that you drive the price of the apartment that you rent the furniture you buy the gym membership you get or even the seat on an airplane"

"having a good credit score could save you more than forty one thousand dollars just promise me that you'll be doing this if you haven't done it already it's so important"

"if you invest a hundred dollars a month beginning at the age of 20 at an eight percent return by the time you're 65 you'll have five hundred and four thousand dollars invested but instead if you figured oh no I'm young I want to go to Coachella I'll start doing this at the age of 25 instead well by the same time you're 65 you'll only have 337,000 invested that's a 167 thousand dollar difference just by waiting five years to invest"