Freedom 18

Sarah Wade

Block C

When I’m eighteen I will have graduated from high school. I will be going to university. I will also have a job.
To be able to pay for university I will need to have a good paying job. I will probably end up working two jobs. In order to pay for university. If I was to work 6 hours a day 6 days a week I would be paid approximately $762.00 per month. As a second job I would be a soccer referee. I would work 3 games a week. I would make $120.00 per month. This would be a total of $882.00 a month.
My only fixed expense would be my cell phone bill. I would have a plan that cost $20.00 a month. I don’t need unlimited everything I want it. So my plan would be just needs. I could call when I needed to. I could text when I needed to. But I wouldn’t be calling and texting all the time.
My biggest variable expense would be my tuition. My tuition would cost me $500 a month. That is just paying for half. On top of that I would have to pay for going out for dinner, clothes, gifts, transit and my savings account. To keep the cost down, I would only go out for dinner once a month, I would have a budget of $20.00 a month on clothes, I wouldn’t buy that expensive gifts. I can’t really do anything about transit. I just couldn’t take any extra trips. I would out $20.00 a month away in my savings account. All of this would be approximately $635.00.
By the end of the month I would have around $227.00.
When I talked to my parents. They thought that me working full time and going to school would be unrealistic. They did not think that I would be able to work 6 hours a day and keep my grades up. They thought it would be better if I worked maybe 3 hours a day 4 days a week. This way I would only be making $684.00 a month. By the end of the month I would have a surplus of $27.00.
I think that I would be able to live this way for a few years. If I put that $27.00 into my savings account I would have enough money saved up by the end of university to do whatever I wanted.