One of the best things I enjoy about writing a blog is to getting to hear other people’s stories, especially from young professionals like myself. And, inspired by My Open Wallet’s NYC profiles, I wanted to do something similar but to switch from a geographic focus to a demographic one.
I’d like to invite 20-somethings (men OR women) to share their money tales.
If you have a beer budget or lead a champagne lifestyle (or both!), if you live amidst the bright lights of San Francisco or in the heart of Texas, if you can calculate compounding interest to the nth degree or if you know more about Ross from Friends than about the Roth IRA – I want to hear your story!
If you have a blog you’d like me to link to, I’d be more than happy to do that as well.
The profile can be as broad or as detailed as you want – of course, in-depth profiles are always the most interesting ones. And everything can be as anonymous or as open as you’d like.
Information that would be helpful to give a context: your age (or a range), your location, and your occupation. You can write about basically anything – how you paid off debt, how you got into debt, what’s your philosophy towards money, if you and your partner have different money styles, what scares you about investing, how you bought a house, etc. etc.
The possibilities are endless!!
So please please email me at wellheeled (at) —- gmail —- (dot com). I’d love to hear all the stories out there, and I’m sure my readers would too.
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My whole blog is my money story, haha. I think I’ll participate if I can come up with something concise and to the point. This is the type of “assignment” in which I tend to ramble on and on…
First off, I love this site! I am about the same age as you, and it’s nice having someone else my age to share money talk with, because soooo many people our age (and older) are financially ignorant.
Money – I can say I’m interested enough in it that I’ve made a career of it. Before I even knew what I wanted to go to school for, I was always interested in what my aunts and uncles had to say about investments and retirement plans over the Xmas dinner table. By the time I was 16, my uncle had drilled into my head the “the magic of compound interest”. I took it to heart. He’s the guy that all the other relatives (my parents included) would speculate about when he left the room for a moment… how many millions was he worth?! LOL A true self-made millionaire. I was inspired. And I learned that being truly wealthy was not that hard, if you played your cards right. My uncle explained that it was just about playing the cards… knowing the tricks.
I find the world of personal finance fascinating. I also find it extremely frustrating to see people close around me so frustrated with THEIR money. I think’s it’s so easy and uncomplicated to have a relatively happy, money-worry-free life, but some people have tiny bad habits that kill them over time. I have always been responsible with handling money, and often tried to offer good advice. Now, however, because I belong to a professional body, my advice has to be quite limited and I only talk about money when people directly ask questions.
Now, without sounding boastful, I have to say that my boyfriend and I have done well together financially. Meaning, we save enough, spend enough, and have fun. The one aspect I hate is, oftentimes others resent the fact we do well (meanwhile, they continue to spend frivilously, make poor choices, etc…. but they don’t see that part), or we are faced with the problem of people asking for money or “loans”. Remember all my speculating relatives? Well, this time its it’s us under speculation. Especially my bf’s family. They are very open with each other, ask very personal, direct questions, and I always battle with being straight up and open, and wanting to say “none of your business!”. On one hand, it’s none of their concern. On the other, I hope to be of help and inspiration.
As much of a hobby and career I find money to be, I also am learning it brings a myrid of complications to relationships, draws up feelings amongst people, etc, so I try to keep talk of it on the down-low to people I know. Hence, my love for blogs developed!
Fun! Can’t wait to read everyone’s responses!
I am in my mid 20′s and I am finally starting a real paying job after many years of school. It feels good to be making a six figure salary but I feel like I am playing catch up with savings and retirement. I also have a ton of school loans so I pretty much save every penny I can find these days.
hey there, this is a great idea!
my 20-something coworkers and I started our blog, We’re Rich!, because we realized we don’t know enough — or indeed, anything — about money and it was time for this to change. Little did we know there’s such a great online community of PF blogs out there.
since we’re all in different life stages — one of us is married, one of us is in a long-term relationship and I just moved to Chicago not long ago and have a 4-month relationship — we’ve got lots of topics to cover and stories to tell.
we hope you’ll visit once in a while and take a look!
http://wesorich.blogspot.com
happy weekend,
paydaze
I, as well, have a blog on the issue and it’s FILLED with stories about life lessons on money! I’m constantly learning. The best story I have is the day I paid off my last credit card. It was the most amazing feeling I’ve ever had!