Senior Year Trauma & Drama
Now that many of us are seniors, literally, we may fondly remember our last year of school, our senior year of high school.
Now it’s your turn. For the previous 11 years, life has been good being taken care of by parents or guardians and most decisions made by them. Some days the biggest decision for students is what to eat for lunch. Now, suddenly, senior year is here and times they are a changing and fast.
As seniors people will keep asking you, “Well, what are you going to do with your life?’ Maybe you are the one in a million who knows exactly what you want to do for work and your life. Many will be planning to go to college, technical school or be an apprentice trying to find your niche. Some people have natural talents. Some people learn by doing. Some people are just lucky and fall into it. But, most people have to work hard for what they achieve.
Writer, Malcomb Gladwell, estimates that to master a skill it will take 10,000 hours, that’s approximately 417 days, or devoting three hours a day for 3,333 days, a little over nine years.
Anyone can be a millionaire! To make this million you will have to make at least $33,333 per year for 30 years or about $16 an hour. Someone once said, “It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.” If you could double a penny every day for a month, you would have over $5 million dollars. Sounds easy? It’s not.
If you are a senior this year get some advice from an old person. Ask them to give you advice on how to make money, how to be happy, and what is the most important thing in their life. You may be very surprised.
The best advice I ever got from an old person was to start early to save and make your money work for you, compounding, always have some cash you can get your hands on easily, and be charitable. The Three C’s, Compounding, Cash and Charity.
And be careful, be very careful of the pictures you make or have made of yourself. These things never go away especially in this day and time. Those yearbook pictures will haunt you.
Have a wonderful Senior year, Jasper County, Piedmont and Shiloh students!