How to Manage Your Student Loans Without Them Managing You
If you’re about to graduate, or if you’ve recently graduated, chances are that you’ve got some kind of student loans. Learning how to manage these college loans so they don’t negatively affect your life is an important part of your post-graduate future. While paying them off as soon as possible is the ideal way to deal with student loans, that’s not an option for most people. The next best thing is to learn how to manage your student loans in a financially positive way. Below, a few tips for handling your student loans after you graduate.
Tax-FA Time? Taxes Are Done, Now File Your FAFSA.
April Fifteenth, a date we all love to hate, even though a large portion of American tax payers get a refund each year, because lets face it, who really likes spending their previous time gathering documents? We have more important things to do like PWNing kids on Xbox live. Anyhow, getting your tax documents together is no fun and no one likes doing, expect maybe your dad, but since you’re like required by law to file your taxes and stuff, why not knock out updating your FAFSA at the same time.
5 “Sure-Thing” Career Fields
As you pursue a career for the first time or transition into a new job, you don’t want to jump into a career where opportunities are limited. Instead, look at these hot programs in industries where the demand for trained professionals will be high for years to come.
Top 10 Recession-Proof Jobs in 2010
In 2010, unemployment remains around 10% as companies nationwide continue significant cutbacks in spending and workforce. With more and more experienced and established workers vying for the same jobs once virtually guaranteed to those fresh out of college, today’s college graduates must seek recession-proof professions and careers in order to ensure future employment.
How To Deduct Your Student Loan Interest
It’s tax time again, and if you paid interest on a student loan in 2009 you may be eligible to deduct up to $2,500 of the interest you paid, whether the loan was for your own education, your spouse’s, or that of a child or anyone else who was your dependent at the time the education was undertaken.