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What Should I Look for in a Business School?

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Career advancement is the goal, of course, but your choice of concentration is what will shape the path that leads there. While many people will choose a focus that aligns with their bachelor’s degree, it may be worth considering other options. Pick a Concentration.

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Alternatives to Student Loans to Fund Your Education

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When I first started taking courses toward my degree, I quickly realized that the money that I’d saved up barely covered my textbooks for the year and I had to be resourceful to figure out how to come up with the cash. Some of my methods may not work for you, but here are some that worked for me: Get a Job. Drop Some Courses.

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Budgeting for Life

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I have found that the course of current events has made me hyperconscious of the importance of developing financial stability early in life. It’s Not Just Important for Children Currently, I’m getting a crash course in just how vital budgeting, preparing and planning for the future is to the stability of your financial future.

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Graduates – Use Summer to Learn How to Avoid College Fail Points

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Time to find out. Talk to any alumni you may know (hint parents, cousins, that kid that went off to college last year) to see what they know about it. Read up on what colleges may offer. Look especially for on campus recruiting and online job portals the college may offer to help place students. Resumé critiques.

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

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Growing up, she excelled in academics, receiving top grades all the way through school and then going on to get a master degree in biological sciences and even completing most of the course of study for a doctorate. Although friends tried to help by offering part time employment, she was unable to keep a paying job.

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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

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Watch what others are doing, how they do it and what they may be getting from it. Make friends, not only with people your own age and from your own neighborhood, but with people older and younger than yourself and with folks who may be richer or poorer or live in a different geographic area. How to manage life activities.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

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If you have an answer to all those questions, then you may be ready to start a small business. Or, you could buy property of your own (if you have the business funding, of course) becoming a property manager or landlord, renting out the space to tenants, maintaining the property and serving as their point of contact for any potential issues.