I love to read about money and the value of the almighty dollar. Money and finance is definitely a passion for me. I follow the stock market closely(every day), as well as keeping up on inflation, the art of saving money, budgeting, and credit. With my interest in money, you would think I had all of my ducks in a row and was super great with making money, keeping money, and living simply within my means, but the reality is I am not. At least not to this point in my life, but I am trying to change.<\/p>\n
When I left my small town of Franklin, Virginia.<\/a> to attend Elon College, (now Elon University<\/a>), I didn't really know what I wanted to do for a living after college.<\/p>\n I worked at the paper mill in Franklin( where my father was employed) during the Summers while I was a student at Elon. It was hard blue-collar type work and I learned that you might need to sweat to make a buck. The paper mill was known for paying hourly workers well, but I knew I didn't want this type of work to be my future so I buckled up and earned a degree in Communications from Elon.<\/p>\n After college, the United States was in an economic recession and my job prospects were bleak. Even though I had a college degree, I had to take a low-paying customer service position right after college. While I learned a lot about the working world and corporate America, I wasn't making enough money to survive and I discovered a way to buy things that you couldn't actually afford via the evil credit card.<\/p>\n I discovered that it was easy to purchase whatever you want via credit, but what I didn't understand was that if you buy something that cost $500 and only pay the minimum payment then that $500 purchase will quickly become $1000 or more. I hate to think how much money I have paid in interest over the years.<\/p>\n In recent years I have become much more responsible with money, but I am still not perfect. I wish I could save and invest more money each month. It seems there are always bills or an emergency situation that causes me to not be able to dave as much as I need to.<\/p>\n Life lessons are just that, lessons. I have learned the hard way about money. I wished I knew the rights and wrongs better at an earlier age and was able to think clearer about my future instead of the right now. What's done is done, but I believe my future with money will be much brighter than my past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love to read about money and the value of the almighty dollar. Money and finance is definitely a passion for me. I follow the stock market closely(every day), as well as keeping up on inflation, the art of saving money, budgeting, and credit. With my interest in money, you would think I had all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}