As someone who just finished her second summer of internships, allow me to offer 10 of the best reasons for completing an internship. (more…)
Starting Your Career
Opening the Next Chapter: Musings from a Recent College Grad
All of a sudden, you’re walking away with a piece of paper in your hand saying that you’re now qualified to head out into the working world. I know I speak for all college graduates when I say, “Where on Earth did the time go?!” 
What a milestone. While graduation has become a time for well-deserved celebration, it ultimately comes down to a time for reflection and thinking ahead. The ever looming question, “What am I going to do with my life?” haunted me every day, even before senior year began. As a planner, the uncertainty of the future was terrifying because as we all know, a college degree doesn’t guarantee a job offer anymore – it now only seems to serve as a jumping off point. (more…)
Secrets of a Former Financial Advisor… Budgets
I am a former financial advisor. The company I worked for is not important (rhymes with “barbarian excess”), but the life and money lessons I learned from that experience proved to be very valuable. For example, I learned that I can’t sell, which might have led to my career change into compliance oversight of financial services. I liked helping people, and helping them solve the puzzles that were their finances and their frustrating lack of progress towards their goals. But more often than not, I found that what was in their best interest was to keep their accounts where they were, and find a way to save more. But as with losing weight, people don’t want the difficult and slow, albeit tried and true way to get there. They want a magic pill that gets them results tomorrow. Which brings me to the first lesson I learned about people and money:
Budgets Don’t Work.
