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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.

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

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."

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