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Learn How to Protect Your Child’s College Fund

For the Mommas

Learn How to Protect Your Child’s College Fund. From parents sending their child to their first day of kindergarten to high school seniors heading into their last year, photos taken by proud parents were everywhere. Among those photos were also pictures and stories about families sending their child off to college.

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Benefit from My Financial Mistakes

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I picked the wrong college major. My parents scrimped and saved for years to send my brother and I through state university. Starting college right after high school, I had no clue about which careers I should consider. I did not take advantage of either high school or college counselors to help figure it out.

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How to Pick A Career

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When I was a young adult, I hadn’t a clue how to go about deciding what I wanted to do ‘when I grow up’ I picked a college major solely on what I enjoyed studying – without any thought or investigation as to how it might (or might not) lead to a job some day. It didn’t.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She (we will call her Susan, although that is not her name) started life as a member of an industrious lower middle class family – one sibling, two parents married to each other. Her dream of becoming a college professor died when her dissertation was not accepted and she did not win the doctorate. Sink Into Depression.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The College Investor : Best Defensive Stock Sectors The best stock sectors for playing defense in a rough market. Through understanding psychology, one can predict how other investors will react to certain market events. The return on this strategy is relatively paltry, as this calculator shows!

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