re: What's the biggest misconception adolescents have regarding adulthood?

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As a kid you underestimate the impact of having to pay all the essentials: rent/mortgage, power, water, telephone, cable, car note, and food. All that stuff your parents paid for. You think you can be rich on $40,000 per year. Think again broseph.

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These do all suck, but the real killer for me are student loans. I wish I'd worked more in college (I did about 20 hours/week most of the time) so I didn't have that burden for years to come.

That said I'm very fortunate with first job out of college...I enjoy and excel at it, don't take work home too much, and get my nights and weekends off. I don't stress too much about my money while also being able to have great health insurance and contributing a solid amount to 401k. But frick those student loans