Posts

How to build a solid financial foundation?

Image
I've been attending classes at school for over ten years, yet I haven't encountered that I was being taught how to save the right way the money that we will earn by the time we'll start our life outside school, the working stage. Since I was a kid, my parents trained me to really spare some of my school allowance. I learned to budget as young as seven years old since I lived away from them and that they'll just have to give my allowance good for 15 days. I have to budget that so it will last for the next 15 days. That was my training ground of saving. When I reached the college years, I learned even more how to value money since I have to work for it. I was in my third year when I started a part time job to help my parents in financing my studies. I worked in the morning and attended classes in the afternoon until nine in the evening. It was a little hard but I have to survive since I badly want to finish my degree. I learned how to budget not just the money...

Work from Home

Image
         Ten years ago, I thought working online isn’t the most practical way of living life. It’s gonna bore you, will deprive you of meeting new people and isolate you from all others. I had my first ever online job 9 years ago. I was introduced by my cousin in law into this world of online teaching. I never thought of becoming a teacher at all, especially teaching English online to foreign students. English isn’t just my thing. But then because I needed some extra income to finance my study, I have to do it. So I must do what they required me to do. These are the things I needed to do before I successfully got in to this online world of working. 1) Resume – Like any other jobs, of course the interviewer must know something about you before they’ll get in touch with you personally. I was on my 3rd year in college at that time, so I don’t really have an experience professionally in this field. Moreover, this isn’t my field of expertise because I’m stud...