Since I got a raise I've been putting away ~25% of my monthly income. I get paid bi monthly. My debt when I began paying it off totaled $39,000
What is the biggest financial mistake you made in your twenties?
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dterpsss
SOHH OG Class 2004
SheWantTheD
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Going to college
Agreed, includin' knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. Essential knowledge regardin' human society.Economics is a social science
dterpsss
SOHH OG Class 2004
True but it is not easily monetized after graduation, unless you do a PHD
NZA
LOL
student loans
Terrance Curtis Beasley
These ni*gas claim Top 5 but we OVOK
ive downloaded 2 movies and 1 game with utorrent and used an open tracker (piratebay). i wasnt online for more than 20 minutes but they still got me. 3 different law firms.
stupidity on my behalf but i used torrent for over 10 years and nothing ever happened. lesson learned
Dushane Hill
Superstar
Not saving
Wasting student loans
Getting students loans in the first place
Going to university, graduated 2 years ago but so far hasn't paid off.
Wasting student loans
Getting students loans in the first place
Going to university, graduated 2 years ago but so far hasn't paid off.
Action Mike
All praise..
Losing 2grand by not reading the small print
Oh...thats my bad on reading you wrong lol...I was bout to say, a brotha is majoring in finance from a state school and then I see that
shyt had me like 
I'm 87 credits deep, what have I done
Buying my benz.
I dont even drive it unless I'm back in Dallas. I didn't even bring it to Tulsa.
I bought a 2015 Jeep Compass cuz I get paranoid driving the car I actually wanted
How you get paranoid
How you get paranoid
Its about 600m back and forth from tulsa. I didn't want anything to happen to it so I bought a Jeep Compass
Taking out student loans to go for a master's degree when I should've just stayed as an undergrad a little longer and switched majors/double majored in CS. It made sense to me at the time, but in retrospect, it would've been less of a hassle to just stay an undergrad for another year and a half and just got my bachelors in CS. It wouldn't have been so bad except I ended up flunking out of grad school because of a combination of personal issues leading to me not doing well in classes and a school administration that really screwed me over in my last semester.
The only bright spots are I didn't have any debt from undergrad (so I'm not super deep in debt with my loans) and the field I'm trying to get into now, software development, isn't one where a degree in a specific subject is a hard requirement everwhere. Still, not having a CS or related degree is definitely making it harder to get my foot in the door.
The only bright spots are I didn't have any debt from undergrad (so I'm not super deep in debt with my loans) and the field I'm trying to get into now, software development, isn't one where a degree in a specific subject is a hard requirement everwhere. Still, not having a CS or related degree is definitely making it harder to get my foot in the door.
what were you scared of.....crashing?
Atsym Sknyfs
Superstar
- When I sold my BS mutual funds and stocks back in 99/00 ....
- not buying stock in dvdexpress and Netflix when it started. It was around when DVD started and being a techie I wanted it .. when I found out about dvdexpress I loved it.. then when I saw they had an IPO starting and then Netflix I didn't know how to get shares although I wanted it real bad.
- not going to san diego and working for Qualcomm in 02 ...