Don’t waste your life or your money on college.

It's almost here the start of a new school year! As my son goes off for his first day of kindergarten I have a cousin who is trying to navigate her way into college....3 weeks before school starts! She's stressed to the max and I asked her why she hadn't started this process sooner! She thought she had! This got me to thinking of all of the mistakes I made in college and what ultimately led me to not completing my degree. 

Planning for college starts your freshman year of high school! Oh the sins of my freshman year haunted me during college application time. However, I persevered and made it to college only to not have planned wisely and thus I wasted a large portion of my life and money on college.

Don't let this happen to you! Here are 15 tips on how to not waste time or money on college!

Managing work, your own business, and your home life.

So how does one woman do it? Maintain a 9-5, work her own business, and manage to do the laundry, homework, and cooking for her family? When you find out you tell me! I often sit at my desk at work and say to myself, if I were home right now I could be getting so much work done for myself! This job is in the way of my success!

 I rarely find the time to fold laundry let alone become a guru of social networking, making weekly YouTube vlogs, writing in my blog and manage to produce a solid product. One person can only do so much. But who has the money to hire an assistant or one of those social media consultants? For a start up business with no money those are expenses I just don’t need or have the funds for. So I have this great idea and nowhere to utilize it! I’m at a stand still and I don’t know what to do!

My best weapon of defense?

Why am I still working for someone else?

This is a question that I ask myself all the time. Especially when my boss enters my office and gives me a list of menial tasks that any trained monkey can do. ‘Can you make me some tea, oh and fax this letter, and when you’re done can you open my mail?’ Open your mail? What, are you afraid of paper cuts? How can a person be placed into a position of authority and supervision over a staff of 30+ people, yet has never acquired the knowledge necessary to operate a fax machine.

Okay so maybe they are busy and delegation is the most important trait of a boss but seriously, some things are just degrading to ask your “assistant” to do. I often find myself sitting at my desk daydreaming of owning my own business and being self-employed. So, I ask myself. Why am I working for someone else? Answer, fear! I have 2 kids to support and I need steady income.