7 Personal Finance Lessons School Doesn’t Teach You

Adam Del Duca
8 min readApr 28, 2022
Photo by Morgan Housel on Unsplash

In the conventional scheme of things, you’re destined to spend close to two decades in school. From elementary school through college, you’re bombarded with a plethora of information that is barely applicable in real-life. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against formal education. My only problem is that schools overlook personal finance, yet this is an essential pillar when striving to achieve success in life. Financial wokeness will take you farther than calculus ever will and as such here are seven personal finance lessons I know school never taught you!

Lesson #1: How To Make Money From Your Laptop

Remember when a traditional 9–5 job was the only ticket to financial success? Thank heavens those days are behind us. Today, you could easily earn a full-time income by transforming your laptop into a money-making machine.

That’s right, you don’t have to work for someone else if you don’t want to. Maybe you hate the idea of commuting daily or tied to your cubicle for 8 or more hours a day. Even if you just want an extra income stream to raise your financial stakes, all you need is a good laptop and a strong internet connection.

The internet is ripe with opportunities for everyone, and it doesn’t matter your education level. If you’re good at…

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