Comments on: Top 10 Things That I Wish I Had Known When I Graduated College

By: Debt Advice

Debt Advice — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:41:21 +0000

You’re not wrong – this would have been helpful to have known when I left.

By: GloombergNews

GloombergNews — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:58:46 +0000

Excellent list you have going here…please add being physically active / working out to the list here. I know this falls under hobbies but I feel that it is more than that…I go insane without it. Also, team sports in your city…something you might not have been doing much of in college but did in middle/high school.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:35:58 +0000

I love number 6 and number 8. I am so glad I worked part time and saved money all through college– It allowed me to make a huge career transition a few years after graduating without having to stress too much about money. By storing away a small percentage of my pay each week, back then, it turns out I used the power of small to create an emergency fund that I never knew I would need.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:02:40 +0000

Great points. I would even say don’t wait until you graduate to start investing – you can be investing throughout college/university too. Lots of ways to get started even when you just have $25.

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By: Matt SF

Matt SF — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:02:29 +0000

Great list. I’ve seen #8 ruin a few of my friend’s lives already.

Not sure how many people heard this interview, but Warren Buffett said the “best investment” he ever made was… his marriage license!

By: SaveBuyLive

SaveBuyLive — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:53:50 +0000

Pretty good list. I don’t really agree with you on points 2 and 3 though.

If promotions are something you want you need to focus on them. You need to know the how the institution works and what your boss wants so that you can move up the ladder. Just being a workhorse isn’t guaranteed to get you anywhere. Most jobs (or at least most of the ones I’ve had the fun of working at) are not meritocracies.

“Do what you love” has to be the most obvious yet the most impossible to follow piece of career advice. What you love may not pay or may not even have many jobs available. Worse yet is that you might not even know what you love.

By: Ryan @ SpendOnLife

Ryan @ SpendOnLife — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:49:20 +0000

You could write a book on number 5, that is the tricky one. If you aren’t saving for periodic expenses you are spending more than you make.

Great post, thanks.

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By: Imee

Imee — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:49:27 +0000

Great tips you got! There’s plenty of stuff I already knew even way before college, but one thing I never really understood was taxes (not consumer ones, the big ones like property and income taxes). I mean I hope they teach it in school–which ones to pay and what time, why you get refunds, If it weren’t for my mom explaining it to me, I’d be a total idiot about it until now!