[UPDATE: Canceled] Borrowing, Budgeting, and Making Smart Financial Choices Highlighted in One of the Many Northcoast Youth Summit Workshops
Bite of Reality educational workshop put on by Vocality [Imagea from an earlier event]
Information from the Northcoast Youth Summit:
Besides exciting speakers, lots of swag, and the chance to meet youth with like interests, the Northcoast Youth Summit offers some crazy good workshops.
Come play the Bite of Reality game with your friends from Vocality CCU to learn about borrowing, budgeting and life choices that can have long term effects on your lifestyle, income and savings. Don’t short change your life… learn to make smarter choices about your money for a great start!
We’ve got lots of other cool workshops for kids between 7th and 12th grade on March 21.
If the kids in your life haven’t looked at this already, have them check out all the possible fun choices–Zumba, Seed Balls-Planting Seeds for Success!, Collective Poetry, Hula Hooping, Unleashing the Micro Bit, Floral Arrangement, Self Defense, Baile Mexicano, The College of the Redwoods Experience, Sparkle Improv, Know Your Rights—about thirty cool choices!
The cost, which includes lunch and a light breakfast, is $20.20. Scholarships available for those in need.
Check out the registration link with the kid in your life:
http://cehumboldt.ucanr.edu/…/4-H…/Northcoast_Youth_Summit/…
Check out this other workshop: New Wildlife Photography Workshop Being Offered at the Northcoast Youth Summit March 21
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Wow. Great idea. Teach the younger generation how to manage a minimum wage income. Maybe even buy a home and invest in the stock market
What a load of crap !
Every one of those kids is staring at a phone! Lmao. You know what my dad told me as a kid, “never be afraid of hard work”. It is a lost art nowadays.
They are looking at the phones because that is part of the workshop.
Here’s some great advice:
1) If you want something, work for it!
2) Stay in school. Graduate High School! Go to College, wherever you can, as long as you can. Have a goal. Stick to it!
3) Don’t wreck your life with marijuana, alcohol, and drugs. You don’t have to drink, or smoke weed, or take drugs, if you don’t want to!
4) Work! Get a job! Easy!!
5) Save your money! If you want something, save up until you can afford it!
6) Very important! Avoid predatory financial institutions like Bank of America, and Chase Bank. Vocality is promoting this, but are they really worthwhile?
7) Later, when you start a career, avoid taxation by investing early in an IRA or a 401K. The sooner you start, the more you will have in 30-40 years.
8) Have a financial plan now! You will always need money!
9) The 2 best careers are: Stockbroker or Real Estate Broker. Remember I told you this!
10) Commercial Property is the same as permanent wealth. Aim at owning rentals, owning as much commercial property as you can get.
11) Study Engineering, not Forestry. Computer Science not Psychology. Study Data Science, not Sociology, go to Medical School, not Beauty School… Do you want to make $20/hour or $200/hour?
Good luck, and remember: There is a big world out there, and there are lots of ways to make money! What worked for your parents, might not work for you!
Also: Remember that there are billions of foreigners who want to move to the USA and compete for your job! Get prepared and excel!
Study your competition. Than destroy it.
And if you don’t get into Medical School, go to Law School! What’s the difference?
The difference? Lawyers get sued far less often than medical doctors.
It’s a joke, Ms Guest…
See “Animal House”..
Start as soon as possible to assess everything that you pay money for, and ask yourself, ” Is this really necessary, or is it just available.” Once you truly figure out what’s necessary, life will be much more expansive. “The more you know, the less you need.” If you aren’t willing to figure this out, you will stay on the hamster wheel for your whole life.
Important too is learning to sort out your own emotions. It’s easy to confuse being dissatisfied about one thing with wanting something else.
What a great idea for young people. Hopefully it will give them a leg up on those like me who learned by the experience of screwing up. In fact I bet there would be a few surprises in this work shop for even the wisest graduates from the School of Hard Knocks.
Interesting that the kids are getting financial advice from the school board president. Especially considering that his school district is in a financial crisis and can’t afford to hire enough people at the schools to keep them running effectively or provide ther education students are asking for. Maybe he should be taking notes…
Could you give an example of making better choices? On the surface it seems unfair to criticize him when he is given a certain amount of money and no more.