At what age did you start taking your own finances seriously?

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I come from a very wealthy family in Atherton, California. I became financially responsible at 16 years old, but learned about building and maintaining wealth when i obtained my AB in Economics with summa cum laude honors at 20 years old and MBA with summa cum laude honors and JD with summa cum laude honors from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School at 24 years old. I became an M&A Investment Analyst and then a M&A Investment Banking Associate at Goldman Sachs and after that i got promoted quickly to VP then to MD. Now I am a 30 year old ivy-league educated MD at Goldman Sachs in another lucrative division at Goldman Sachs that pays more and works closely with the investment banking division. I am a minority (African-American and Moroccan Male). The African-American side of my family started lucrative investments and businesses in the finance, biotechnology, and technology decades ago and the Moroccan side of my family has wealth from oil and lucrative businesses as well. So I already kind of knew about financial responsibility, but my ivy-league degrees and lucrative position helped me gain more in-depth knowledge about finances and investments.

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18 because I got pregnant and kids need things! I bought my first house at 27. I wish I had more saved and used my credit cards less but I just didn’t make enough for quite awhile. Realizing now at 30 having something is better than nothing and I still have time!

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Define “seriously”

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Mid 30s

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36

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Mid 30s.

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Lol to all these young answers. 33. I saved a little before then but 33 is when it all changed.

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26.

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16

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At 16 when took up economics as a subject and sat with dad picked up some shares from the very pink economic financial times

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29

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24ish

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13, bought my first stock thanks to my dad

18.

traveled for a while after college so 23

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It was around the time I was able to obtain my first w2 job which was around 16

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