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Life Kit
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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is NPR's life kit. |
| 0:02.4 | I'm reporter Andy Tagle. |
| 0:04.7 | I love my job. |
| 0:06.7 | Getting paid to be curious, to learn stuff, |
| 0:09.0 | and then get to share those things with all of you. |
| 0:11.2 | My dream. |
| 0:13.2 | But you know what's even better than working? |
| 0:16.7 | Going on vacation. |
| 0:19.8 | I mean, who wouldn't love to take a break from their lives every now and then? |
| 0:23.6 | Traveling to new places, |
| 0:25.4 | treating yourself to good food, or hotel stays, or new adventures, |
| 0:28.8 | or just quality time with loved ones. |
| 0:30.8 | That's the dream. |
| 0:32.8 | But for a lot of us, big trips or big spends can feel like just that. |
| 0:36.8 | A financial fantasy. |
| 0:38.8 | A luxury reserve for the likes of moguls, |
| 0:40.8 | or jet-setting celebrities, |
| 0:42.8 | or at least the very well-off. |
| 0:45.8 | Personal finance and travel journalist Catherine Fan says, |
| 0:48.8 | not so. |
| 0:50.8 | You don't have to be a millionaire to make some of those dreamy extras into a reality, |
| 0:54.8 | she says. |
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