From how to get a job to how to be smart with money, here are some of the biggest lies we’ve been told about what it means to be a grown-up. Want to learn about more myths you shouldn’t believe? Check out this video:
And this week’s video is brought to you by wealthsimple. i used to film, but it is now very different in terms and what’s important is to get rid of a lot of these notions so without further ado, here are eight myths about adulthood the truth is amongst the people that you have on any given purges where i got rid of people who i’d long since stopped supposed to keep these
People in your life for a long time define your friendships by who makes the time for you that we should own a home, for example, by a certain age. change your life, or needs, or professional opportunities don’t own a home by a certain age, you’re not a real adult. or to have a kid, or the fact that you should be having kids because it’s where my parents were and i’m not
At that place. decision, whether it’s marriage, or home ownership, or having that unless we fully check it off by a certain time, and professionally in a very coherent way by the time making sure i’m managing all of my day-to-day investments, one of the biggest myths a lot of us have about adulthood, is that if you get off the track or have a delayed start and when it’s
Combined with the pressure that so many of us what the job is, it can feel like once you get that job, or even have a delayed start to their professional life. than 18 months at a time and even that’s a little low, to learn new skills is to move to a slightly different either way, a career is almost never a linear path. losing that myth-based fear of diverting from the
Career and you can also feel like some of the people you work with, and while there are some people who, in a professional setting, in one area of their role can be totally blindsided by others. like you have 100% confidence and are never challenged by it adulthood that is holding you back is this idea that people is this life that is based around working really hard but
With a demanding job and limited vacation time, on weekends, designate at least one night during the week break some of that time up into smaller weekends away, don’t expect that the only time you’ll see or even really have plans to go surprise them one weekend for their birthday. and you’ll stop feeling like you have so little of it. is about you and the decisions that
Are right for you. one example for this that i’ve had to kind of get over leap into explanations and justifications about why. not everyone will love that decision and some people an explanation so long as what i’m doing doesn’t affect them. of the habit of explaining and justifying to one another is an often very scary place of people being really, really and number
Eight is being honest is the same as being dramatic. now, obviously we should always be conscientious of each other if someone is doing something to you that might cross a boundary and set up the boundaries that are necessary for you. right now, but i really can’t be on my work email after 10 pm. polite and deferential and non-confrontational, even when is the idea that
You need to wait until you’re really old that invests in companies that support gender diversity. as well as set up a smart savings account with higher
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