Debt
Consolidate Credit Card Debt – Payments Getting Out of Hand?
Put Your Credit Card Down!
Credit cards can be a great tool. They’re convenient, help build your credit history, and come with benefits like cashback and travel rewards. For all their virtues, however, credit cards can come with a big downside when they’re not used wisely. They can tempt us to spend more than we normally would and things can quickly spiral out of control before we even realize.
I Worked In a Bank When I Was 22 and Wanted to Walk Into the Sea
At 22, I was professionally flailing. I’d spent my three years since dropping out of college working at a hardware chain and then at a clothing store, finally realizing after too much managerial drama that I didn’t want a future in folding jeans. So, after too many shifts spent crying over the cash register and educating my 17-year-old employees on the symptoms of a quarter-life crisis, I asked a friend for an in at the bank across the street. She worked there, she liked it, and she thought I would too. So I bought a fancy interview outfit, updated my resume, and found myself hired for a new branch about 20 minutes away.