Zero-Based Budget for Recent Graduates

My First Salary Didn’t Come With a Manual Getting a full-time salary after graduation felt like it should’ve been the easy part. It wasn’t. Suddenly I had rent without roommates, loan payments starting, and a paycheck that looked bigger on paper than it ever felt in my account. That’s when I decided to build a … Read more

What Finally Made This System Stick After Starting Full-Time After a rough first month of copying my old student budget and watching it fall apart against a real salary, I rebuilt my zero-based budget as a recent graduate around what post-grad life actually looks like. This version, simplified categories, a specific plan for new expenses, … Read more