Same!

I have seen and in my yt feed and ignored it because I figured it was (AI/bait-and-switch/some other nonsense). I'm glad to hear it's actually real!

How your cats or other special interests are doing?

I am glad he'll get that! I also was not a big spender, but the specific "this is what will happen if you do this" kind of information would have helped me so much with planning better

I like native species information and Indigenous peoples information (historical and present-day) in multiple languages that reflect the local community

(I watched a friend struggle with credit card debt during undergrad so knew enough to avoid that particular hell, at least. we need a pithy slogan about how paying only the minimum means you'll be paying for a trip 29 years longer than you were on the trip)

- This would have also helped me make better choices when I finally started earning above-poverty level wages. Just thinking of all the "fun" stuff I bought mindlessly instead of setting even a little more aside for paying down interest-bearing loans makes me want to build myself a time machine

- an extra $5 week put into savings provides more of an emotional cushion than getting Popeyes

- do you really need a car? really truly? really truly you need it so much you'll get a second job to cover the cost of the car + the cost of student loans?

- keep paying interest but also use the few months before you have to start paying back your loans to get yourself an emergency fund

- once you start paying them back: the minimum due will just keep you out of the court system, to actually pay off the debt you need to pay a lot more on top of that

The only suggestions I have really are for your students to ask themselves:
- can you afford to wait 6-12 months to get your foot in the door? move?
- how can you earn money/gain experience in the meantime?
- what's your back-up plan? (other field)
- what's your walk-away point? (time, salary, etc.)

I graduated during the 2000 tech bubble burst and moved back in with my parents + worked a PT library job that I got thanks to connections I had made when I was a student.

I got hired into my specialty after 6-7 months because I was able to move cross country + take a job on the poverty line

I watched part of it a few years ago and adult me was so surprised by how teeny Diana actually was!

I had already been meaning to do this so extra motivation!

I didn't see one but I also have everything from Gemini marked as junk mail so it probably went straight to spam

Hahaha, just realized why it seemed so bad today -- I actually had turned the predictive text setting to off a few months ago because I found it so annoying! So gmail just ignored that setting and pre-empted everything to "on" because of course it did