Tuesday, January 21, 2014
7 Financial Decisions Made In Your 30s That May Haunt You In Your 50s
Forbes: People often say “life is short” as a justification to do or buy something immediately rather than waiting. But the truth is, life is not short. Life is long. The average life expectancy for an American male is 76.2 years, and 81 years for a female. A thirty-year-old discussing a short life may actually be looking at another 50 long years.
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I went into this article thinking that I might be too much of a naive, idealistic, starry-eyed, college student with too little understanding the real word to appreciate the advise here, which is probably sort of true. But I'm still glad I chose to read it. The attitude of the writer, that life actually isn't that short and so we should be thinking about decisions responsibly at least sounds like something I agree with, although I don't know if its something I will see myself following in practice. But its definitely something I will think about. The section that most resonated with me was the section about when to have children. I see myself as someone who does want to have children eventually, but at the same time I know that I want to have a decent amount of time after college to be an adult without family responsibilities. This is something that I think is pretty common with girls of my generation but its a lot to think about. And this article did an interesting job of presenting the different things to consider with children.
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