Living Alone vs. Living at Home

Is living on your own a step towards being grown or mature? Why move out so soon? Is it because you are mature and able to move out or you feel as if you're "grown" and it's the best thing for you to do.

On Friday Wknd with Tez Radio Show within the "Melody Life Tips" segment the topic of discussion was focused on living alone.

How old were you when you lived only? Why did you make the choice to live alone? Along with other key points of why living alone works or doesn't work for some people.

There are many pros and cons on why living at home is a great choice for some folks.

According to an article, here are some of the pros to living on your own:

1) You will save money

2) You won't have to do all the housework

3) You will have someone to cook a nice meal when you can't

4) Your parents can help with your little kids

5) The familiar feeling of being at home

6) The satisfaction of helping your parents

And the cons...

1) You don't have privacy or your space

2) You can't call friends over or have house parties

3) Unwelcome advice about your life

4) Potential fall-out with your folks

5) Your friends and colleagues will make fun of you

6) Your love life is likely to take a tumble

7) You won't learn the hard lessons of life

8) You will make your way into the property market

9) Your parents will always treat you as their child

Within various studies conducted by the Pew Research Center, showing that it is more common for young adults to live at home and for longer periods of time.

Millennials likely living at home

Living at home by generations

Increase in Living With Parents

To hear the actual Wknd with Tez Radio Show conversation go to Facebook and view the live video.

Invest in You✊🏿

It's never to early for one to begin investing in themselves... for it is better to start while you're "young" right?!

Just at the age of twenty-three I have made the choice to invest in my present life just as much as my future.

Growing up I either experienced life without having the things I wanted. As well as often times not having all the things I once needed. Throughout the years, I have also witness others struggling to make certain "ends meet." Most of the times their situations were ten times worse than what I thought I was going through. Often times the struggle came from lack of resources and wise decision making or simply just because life was happening way to quickly for people to maintain.

I chose to create my own success story by making it prevalent that ALL 2018 it would be the year of investing in myself! Investing in every aspect of life whether it's financially, spiritually, emotionally and or physically.

Here are a few things that I have accomplished thus far...

• Understanding my 401K benefits

• Gathering Life Insurance quotes

• Joined a credit union

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• Car note and insurance (My first vehicle!)

• Increased credit score

• Began working out and meal prepping again

• Event planning

• Understood the power of saying NO

I definitely don't have it all together! Each day I take advantage of those who cross my path. It's interesting learning about others and their experiences. The key is to listen and take notes from more than one person to accumulate your own opinion so that you can have a greater life by the time you're they're age.

It's crazy seeing people's reaction when people hear how old I am, learning that I have a degree, no kids yet and I am so interested in "getting myself together first." They always wish their children would have focused more on themselves first before getting involved with a 'significant other' or making other life changing choices of their own trying to be "grown" not taking any advice from others who have already experienced the challenges they are ready to face.

As I build up my future for myself, I am just patiently waiting for someone special to come along and help contribute to my success made thus far. Then, we can collectively continue to do more successful things together. However in the meantime.... you can just find me some place working hard, traveling more and enjoying life!

Don't Let The Money Make You!

Work, work, work, work, work... WORK!!!

Working tends to bring on a since of independency. Although, you may not own your own business yet nor have others working with and for you, trust me that will come in due time. There's no better feeling than to make your own money and being on your own time. But until then you have to work those long shift hours in order to survive and invest in yourself....that way you never have to ask anyone for a dime.

Working seems like that's all I ever do!... I always say to people, "you have to work even on your days off!"

There should never be a time where you are not trying to advance yourself. Even on the days that you are not physically working out here "securing the bag" making those dollars by the hour. You should take the time out and find other ways to invest in yourself! Whether it's learning about how to get your credit score right, looking into ways on how to become a homeowner or just simply searching for other professional opportunities and ways to honing up on your skills.

The Life of a "Jamaican" Woman

The moment I announced another job people started referring to me as "Jamaican [man]," one he has several jobs.

So what was once just a job, turned into two and then eventually turned into having three jobs...

Yes! I am a three job working shorty. All being part time positions which makes managing them fairly easy.

My most recent job is working at the original Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen as a shift leader. I have a thing for sweets ... so, yes the temptation of not eating everything is hard to resist.

Second job, where I have been working there for a year now is a place located downtown known as Zoup. It's a franchise restaurant originated from the northeast serving you nothing but soups, salads and sandwiches!

And lastly, I work for WAVE 3 News. My early, early morning grind, this job is priority. It's how I go about scheduling my availability for the other two jobs. Normally working Wednesday through Sunday. Whenever I return to work on Wednesday's for some reason I always feel as if there's something I missed out on, due to it being the middle of the week which is my favorite type of day..."Hump Day." On my days off from this job I typical try to work at my other jobs more.

There are days where I go from one job to the next and other days where I work all three jobs within the same day BUT those paychecks though are bound to look real nice 👀👏🏾 however, my bank account as time goes on tends to be questionable. 🤔😎

I get it all the time people ask me "how do you do it?... do you ever sleep?!"

I get it all the time people ask me "how do you do it? Do you ever sleep?!"

Yes, it's simple just get up and do what you have to do! That's why whenever people mention how tired they are it always seems to be a joke to me. Like, "if only you all

knew?!🤔😴"

There's many days where I think about calling in, just so I can sleep my entire day away even on days that I really am not feeling well...yet I don't I just I thug it out!

The key is to not complain so much about it and remember why you're working so hard. 👊🏾

However, don't work to hard to where you don't make time for yourself, the things you enjoy doing and the people you love spending time with (other than your coworkers). 💆🏾✨

P.S. there are times where I don't get any sleep at all, yet those are the sacrificing I'm willing to make while I'm "young."