Advice for College Grads

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🗓️ 12 May 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Money tips, job hunting advice, life lessons, and why ages 26 and 32 are markers of true adulthood. Plus we share the major regrets from our youths so that you don’t end up like us.

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0:00.0	My fellow students, distinguished faculty and alumni, this is Molly Fool Answers.
0:10.0	I'm Allison Southwick and I'm joined by Robert Brokamp and Dayana Yoakum.
0:14.0	It's May.
0:15.0	Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and college students are throwing their mortarboard caps into the air as they step into the abyss of adulthood.
0:27.1	What's the first step? It's a doozy.
0:30.4	So today we're going to give our very best money advice for college grads, which includes learning from some of our mistakes.
0:37.0	If you were forced to listen to this show by an elder, someday you will thank them, maybe even
0:42.2	with a written note like your mom always tells you to do.
0:45.8	So listen to her.
0:48.5	Yeah?
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:50.3	Can kids still write?
0:53.0	I think so. I don't know. I barely can write these days. My kids have still? I think so.
0:54.4	I don't know.
0:55.2	I barely can write these days.
0:57.0	My kids have still had to learn handwriting and cursive and all that.
0:59.8	I was heartened to see this.
1:02.4	I'm sure all three of us learned how to type on a typewriter.
1:05.3	Oh, that's the truth.
1:06.9	I got a typewriter from my high school graduation.
1:09.1	Speaking of graduations, that was my present, a typewriter.
1:12.2	And look at all the great novels that came out of that.
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