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The Canada Student Loans Centre Problem Solving Flow Chart
As a sort of self-therapy session in regards to the anger I felt when writing my article on student loans that was posted earlier this week I thought I would take a humorous (allegedly) look at what the training program must look like over at Canada Student Loans...
Why Is The Canadian Student Loans Program Insane?
One of the closest friends has recently been put through the ringer by the Canadian Student Loans Centre, and although this is far from the only saga of incompetence I have heard in relation to that bureaucratic boondoggle this one takes the cake. Before I get into...
How to Manage Your Schedule and Complete Assignments On Time
Large tasks are tough to complete and even worse to get started if you procrastinate like most people. I usually thought it would take much longer to complete an assignment then it actually took. This caused me to put off the assignment until it was too late. I often...
Moving To Get a Job
Moving can often suck. Moving when you’re young and looking for work almost always sucks because you are rarely moving toward a desirable location. Locations that are desirable by definition attract highly qualified people in all fields, so your chances of landing a...
My University Money Interactive Student Budget
My University Money is proud to offer its own unique original resource with its interactive student budget. We understand that you're busy and don’t have time to fuss around making excel spreadsheets (all you accounting students out there aside), so we went ahead and...
Benefits of Online Banks for Young People
Most young people I know today already know and love the internet banking model, but it isn’t just “hip” in terms of a fad, there are actually a lot of solid reasons for going with internet banking. First and foremost, much like the online shopping model I have come...
Gender Ratio and Getting a MR Degree
It used to be the norm for people to joke about young women attending post-secondary education in order to get a MRS degree (in other words – marry someone who was going places and who could support them for the rest of their lives). The times they are a changing! ...
Best Place to Live and Travel – South America or South East Asia? Part 2
If you're not sure where "part 2" came from, check out "part 1" that was posted last week. I was going to write about potential business opportunities in this section but fact is I’ve never even considered working a “job” whilst I’ve been living abroad so who am I to...
Best Place to Live and Travel – South America or South East Asia? Part 1
Whether to visit South America or South East Asia to pursue a relatively inexpensive lifestyle is a scenario that is difficult to get any level of accuracy about for obvious reasons – what’s important for one person may be entirely unimportant for another. So with...
Spending Money On Campus Food
We all know we shouldn’t do it and yet we still do. We’ve seen the people on TV say that this is how they got into debt and we read the “Top 10 Tips For Getting Out of Debt” column that says not to do it – but we still do. It’s just that it’s so easy not to make...
Do I Need Every Book On My Initial Booklist?
Many young students that simply want to start off on the right foot needlessly spend hundreds of dollars to fill out a booklist that is a fairly useless document. The short answer is that you almost certainly do not need every book on your booklist. Textbooks are a...
What’s the Average Salary with a Masters in Project Management?
One of the more popular academic degrees that have become more prevalent in recent years involves the study of project management. Many different businesses need project managers to oversee some of the most complicated projects imaginable. Some may wonder what project...
Not Sure What To Do But Love Travelling?
As I check out the Facebook pics of many of the young teachers that I graduated with I thought that some of you travel-obsessed readers out there might be interested in learning about how you can get paid to travel the world and experience new cultures simply by...
Why Renting Isn’t a Bad Deal For Today’s Graduates
It has become all the rage in the papers these days to discuss renting versus buying. While this isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, it has taken on a particular relevance with the boom in housing prices and extremely low rental vacancy rates across Canada. It seems that...
Having The Money Talk With Your Parents
If your house was anything like mine growing up, then money was a bit of a taboo subject. In fact, it seemed to be a taboo subject amongst most of the adults I talked to now that I think about. I’m not sure why that is, but I’m glad that I’m a teacher and my salary is...
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