Juliette Fairley - How did you become a personal finance expert?
In this video, Juliette Fairley shares that she became a personal finance expert unexpectedly after graduating from Columbia Journalism School in debt, explaining how her first journalism job covering personal finance taught her crucial money management skills that helped her pay off her loans and recognize the importance of financial literacy.
Video Transcript
I became a personal finance expert in a very strange way.
It chose me. So I went to Columbia Journalism School and, I went into debt. And back then it cost twenty thousand dollars to go to Columbia Journalism School, which was a lot of money for me at, I think I was twenty one, twenty two years old.
And, I couldn't really afford it.
But I did it and I took on the debt. And it was a nightmare paying it off. My first job out of Columbia Journalism School was to work at a magazine as a personal finance expert. I thought, gosh, I know nothing about personal finance.
What am I going to do? Well, I was put in that position in order to learn how to manage my finances. And I started learning how to invest and how to pay off your debt and how to manage your debt and how manage your money. Like, it was a quick lesson in financial literacy.
So I ended up paying off all that debt because I got a very well paying job with, Steve Forbes, who, as you know, came from a very wealthy family and launched a magazine.
So I started working for that company and I made a lot of money and I was able to pay off my debt. The more that I was in this profession of personal finance and writing about personal finance, because in writing a story I also have to research the information. So I started implementing some of these tips for myself.
And I began to realize just for myself how important financial literacy was.
