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

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Current job postings for full-time and part-time opportunities. Work on figuring out how you can best get referrals from your professors; what kinds of extracurricular activities count most for where you want to be and whether or not there are paid or unpaid internships that you can look into applying for.

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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

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Prepare for getting into the ones you think you might want to attend – by studying the right subjects, participating in the right activities and working the right kinds of part time or summer jobs. How to manage life activities. Try for internships to get a feel for what the work is really like.

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Reader Story: It’s Never too Late to Start: Personal Finance Planning for Over-40s

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Like me, when they were younger, it didn’t seem a priority and then life became busy with careers, children and juggling activities. Some people take on a second job to help fund their retirement; others do part-time work during retirement to keep some income coming in to augment their savings.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

Family Balance Sheet

Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. 10K in car payments, $35K in credit card debt. What kind of debt was it? How long did it take you?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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Madison presents Credit Card Application Spree to Maximize Sign Up Bonuses posted at My Dollar Plan , saying, “It’s time for a round of credit card applications to make some money! Several weeks ago, I made the decision that it was about time to start looking for a new full time job.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

Family Balance Sheet

My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. We strive to be a pretty active family. We rarely use a credit card and if we do, we pay it off right away. My husband commutes by bike and is a runner. The money that we used to spend on debt now goes into savings.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

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We all love outdoor activities, but we don’t all enjoy the same ones. Our mom stayed home to raise us kids; she went to work part-time in the local school system after both my brother and I were in school. What’s the easiest/hardest part of being frugal? The same is true for Maine.