The Money Lesson School Skipped And How I’m Catching Up
Let’s face the reality that struck after one has spentyears in classrooms we dissected frogs, memorized historical dates, wrestled with quadratic equations and analyzed Shakespeare which turned out not to be Useful, Sometimes But the one thing I never learned, from school which is the most important is the thing that impacts my life literally every single day How to actually make money manage it, and build something with it.
It hit me hard after graduation as Suddenly the training wheels were off the bikes off life and I have to ride my own with Bills landed like bricks That paycheck vanished faster than I thought possible Budget Investing and Taxes beyond the simple W-2 Building actual wealth, which felt like I’d been prepped for a game show where the prize was more homework not financial security. Money Mindset Was Missing as all the School taught me was to get good grades follow instructions and seek approval. The real world rewards initiative calculated risk problem solving and understanding value creation was what non of my lecturer taught me as Nobody sat me down and said, "Here's how money flows, how assets work, or how to make your money work for you instead of just trading hours for dollars."