Monday, June 11, 2012

This semester I took an personal finance class for an elective for my major and I loved it. Well, I loved what I learned. We learned how to budget and how to analyze our spending. We learned about the appropriate amounts of health, car, and life insurance. We learned about the basics of investing and how to save for retirement.

It was great. I want to share everything I've learned with everyone. Before I took this class, I was so intimidated by investing money. But really, the principles are quite simple. There are so many basic principles that, if people knew, could empower them to make great decisions and save so much money. I considered pursuing financial planning as a career, but the set-up of most firms doesn't really appeal to me. Plus, I don't really want to be managing people's money - I'm more interested in coaching people on the basics so that they are empowered to manage their own money. I'm more interested in helping regular, every day people rather than rich people.

I guess personal finance will become a hobby for me. I hope that friends, family, people at church, etc. will approach me with their questions. I've thought about doing a blog series to share some of the more interesting/pertinent things we learned in class. I want to help other people feel empowered to save money and invest to meet their goals. Would that be interesting at all?

5 comments:

  1. That would be awesome! I think pretty much everyone can benefit from at least a reminder as to how save an invest money.

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  2. I'd be interested in a series like that.

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  3. Do you want to come over some night and play games and talk about personal finance? We know a lot, but stuff like how much insurance you should have kind of eludes me.

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  4. DO IT DO IT DO IT! I think we could all benefit from what you've learned.

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  5. I would definitely be interested!

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