Thursday, January 12, 2012

How I Paid for College on a Paperboy's Salary

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Travis Hoium PaperboyLooking back on my childhood, one of the greatest lessons I learned early in life was the value of a dollar and how to work for a dollar.

My first job was collecting aluminum cans that I would take to the local recycling facility for a few bucks in return. As an entrepreneurial young man, I even had my parents, my grandparents, and a few neighbors in on the racket. Can collecting didn't pay a lot -- maybe $8 or $10 every couple of weeks -- but every cent I earned went into a savings account...

How I Paid for College on a Paperboy's Salary originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-01-11T16:05:00Z.

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