Why Young Adults Fear Active Trading: How to Overcome Investing Doubts
In the past few months, I have started to think more seriously about my investment strategy. Most of my retirement plan right now has been 1-dimensional: INVEST A LOT! For many reasons, this is important. For those who know very little about investing, investing a lot...
Four Tips For College
College campuses will be filling up in the next few weeks as classes soon begin. Regardless of what year you are, below are four tips to help navigate you through your college career. While they may not seem very important at the time, they have a profound effect on...
Do You Remember Your First Time?
I remember my first time. There was nothing else that I wanted except to be an adult. To be independent and responsible for my own life. Crossing this threshold is often a sign of stumbling into adulthood. I gave it some serious thought before I decided to take the...
Do I Need MORE Life Insurance?
One of the many financial challenges that young adults face is learning to allocate money to specific aspects of their budget. How much should one spend on this or that. Housing. Food. Retirement. Life insurance. These are all competing factors in our budgets and...
Why do People Get in Debt? How to Get Out of it
Young adults have their entire future ahead of them. Unfortunately, this means that many of them take advantage of the time instead of doing everything they can to get ahead. Many of my friends talk about debt as if it were just another fact of life. I can’t...
3 Ways to Continue Your Education for Free (or Close to It)
Just because you’ve earned your college degree doesn’t meant the learning needs to end. All that needs to end is taking out student loans for more learning. There are many ways you can continue your education for little or no cost. While non of these will earn you a...
Emergency Expenses – How Young Adults Can Expect the Unexpected
Today, it seems like everywhere you turn financial advisers and mentors are instructing people to have an emergency fund. While young adults may struggle with saving money, I believe that my generation is going to succeed in this area because of certain advantages...
Furnish Your Apartment – Expensive or Cheap?
A few weeks back I was at my friend’s wedding in Ohio. I was part of the wedding and got to spend a lot of time with one of my closest friends. There are very few things that are better in life than spending quality time with those closest to you. When we were...
Advantages of Being Young in the Work Place: Utilize Your Strengths to Succeed
Over the past few months, my wife and I have been addicted to the TV Show, ‘The Office’. I know we are late to the party, but it is a hilarious show. I had never watched more than a couple episodes of the show and didn’t understand how entertaining...
Hi, I’m Corey. I’m a husband, college graduate, young adult, and non-profit manager. I enjoy learning new things about personal finance and sharing them with my loyal readers. Join the conversation.