Okay, is it me, or is a savings accounts as unheard of as a sold out DTH concert??I remember being 16 calling WaMu's corporate office to be allowed to open a savings and checkings account as long as my parents would co-sign on the account because I was not 18. I was so eager to make my own money and save it.
Everything now is this nick-nack, or this designer, or this new Mac product. Seriously? Think out the box people! How about...this house? this car? this vacation spot?
It is so frustrating to be young and have the world at my fingertips yet can't find anyone to go on vacation with my age or get an apartment or something.
I was recently unemployed for I would say two months, and honestly, I was so happy that I did not have to ask my parents for a thing because I had a savings account.
I remember telling a good friend, "I want a man with an apartment, a car, a steady job. . . .etc." And his reply was simply this.."How do you expect all this, yet you have none of it? Why don't you get it for yourself, that way you don't search for it in someone else."
It was like fire to oil. Ever since then I have been on the move. 19 year old from Ridgewood, a place where Mandee's and Joyce Leslie is the place to shop, with a license (soon car in the summer), great job, and a semester left till I get my associates.
So I say this, before you try to find a relationship. . find a job.
before you judge a guy by the car he drives. . . get a license.
Current Song Playing: Independent Woman - Destiny's Child
You are wise beyond your years, Beth! I'm 26, and I wish I would've had that kind of foresight when I was 16. It probably would've left me in a better place financially...but we live and learn...Just promise me that you won't forget about me when you are a rich girl! lol
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