At what age you are totally independent financially

China

November 28, 2008 8:16am CST

Hi, Hope everyone is fine today. One year before my graduation from the college, I began to work full time in a company manufacture and export ladies knitted underwear, I was a international salesman and had a monthly salary of RMB 2000, 6 months later, my salary increase to RMB 2500. I was 22 at that time. Since then I had never asked my parents for money. Sometimes I even send some money to my parents. And after my graduation from the university, I wanted to find a job that is more challenge, and I wanted to learn more, so I quit and find this job, I now have customers from Australia and French, though they just place smaller orders right now, I know the order will become large in the future... Sorry I say too much. Just want to know when did you become totally independent in financial?

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@anneshirley (1516)

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

I became totally independent financially when I graduated from a college and landed on a job. I was 21 and since then, I am splitting with my parents on bills to be paid. I still want to earn more since I am looking forward on the days that my parents don't have to work anymore just to earn money. On their old age, I want to see them spend their time relaxing and not sweating from work. With the help of my sisters and brothers, I believe we can fulfill that dream. I am 25 now and if I am lucky enough, before I reached 30, I have realized that dream already.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Wow, you are really a good child to your parents, and you parents must feel very proud to have a son (daughter?) like you. And I hope that your dream would come earlier. Thanks for your sharing.

@ch88ss (2271)

• United States

28 Nov 08

That is great that your salary increased six months later, not many people get so lucky. I became independent at 18. It was tough at first, but I had to since my parents don't have a lot of money and they had to take care of my siblings.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Hi, thank you for your response. We were in the same condition, that is both our family was not rich before we become independent. But I am lucky that finally I finished my higher eduation.

• China

29 Nov 08

But I finished my college education by loaning money from the university, which later on become my financial burden after I begain to work.

@thukio16 (254)

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

Hi there! I could still remember the time that i became financially independent, because it was when i got a that i want with a high salary. But still im giving my parents a share of our finances a being member of our family. Have a nice day!

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• China

30 Nov 08

Hi, thanks for sharing, if you don't mind telling me at what age when you first time receive your salary?

@xlinzixx (510)

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29 Nov 08

i became finaccially independant about two years ago at the age of 19. thats when i got my first paid modelling job and was earning over £500 a week and ive never asked my parents for money since then because luckily i learned to save so even though this credit crisis is going on luckily i have a nice little amount of money to keep me going for quite some time.

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• China

29 Nov 08

wow, 500 pounds a week, I think that's quite a lot of money for a nineteen years girl. Is that very common in UK? since I know people who just enter into society usually get lower paid.

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@miraclefreebies (3043)

• United States

1 Dec 08

I was 18 years young when I became financially independent. I moved out from my grandma at 18. I had a full time job working as a pre school teacher and I had a pat time job working for a newspaper company, so I was really busy working so many hours. Me and my cousin moved into a house together and split the bills in half. For me it was freedom because I wasn't allowed to do a lot of things before I turned 18. Even though I had responsibility,It was a blast!

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• China

2 Dec 08

Hi, thanks for sharing your experience. wow, I envy you because you became financially indepedent in an early age. and your jobs seems to me are that kind of jobs that would make life become more colorful..

@mariposaman (2959)

• Canada

28 Nov 08

Good for you. It is always nice to see ambitious and successful young people. Sometimes a job you enjoy is worth it in the long run over a job that maybe pays more but you hate. There is something to be said though for a good salary. I do see people that have both because they enjoy their jobs so much they excel in it and have the best of both worlds. As I recall I was about 19 or 20 when I was employed with my own apartment. It seems today that is less expected that the children move out and become independent but I believe it is necessary for person in order to grow and mature.

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@mariposaman (2959)

• Canada

28 Nov 08

I forgot to ask, what is knitted underwear, surely it is not knitted from wool?

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• China

29 Nov 08

Yes, to leave home is necessary to be independent. I leave home when I was 18, to go to the univeristy for higher education, and live in the student apartment with another three girl. I found parttime job as a tutor when I am a college student but I can't totally independent because my earning is not enough to pay for my educational fee. Three years later, that's one years before my graduation, I come to another city, far away from home to hunt a job. The result turns good. and then I finally independent. And you wanted to know what kind of underwear: We have all kinds of ladies' underwear, like corset, brassiere (moded bra, soft cup bra, cohesive/silicone bra), and panties like hipster, string, brief, thong and so on...we also make vest, camisole...bikini, swimwear... Good day!

@rosedust82 (2066)

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

Hi there... Well, I became independent when I got my first job more than five years ago. As soon as I got my first salary, I stopped asking for money from my parents and I have not asked any ever since.

It's a great feeling especially now that I can actually help my mom out with the finances and I no longer have to be a burden to her anymore.

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• China

29 Nov 08

I know very well about the feeling of being independent, and we have something in common here, that is we both can do some help to our parents. I give some extra money to my parents, and I also give 2 hundred bucks to my younger brother who is now a freshman in a college.

@berryliciousme (1003)

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

I became totally independent financially when I got my first job after college. I was 21. Right now, I am renting my place, pay my own bills and buy things that I need. I also share my family what I earn by giving them extra money and buying stuff they want.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Glad to knwo that you are independent already and you are younger than me. Being independent earlier is good.

@spalladino (17891)

• United States

29 Nov 08

After graduating from high school I went to work full time for the telephone company and it was at that time that I became financially independent from my parents. They had paid the down payment for a new car for my graduation, and guaranteed the loan, but I was responsible for making the payments, paying the insurance and my mother even charged me a small amount to live at home...money that she saved and returned to me as part of a wedding gift when I was married. I have been on my own ever since.

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• China

29 Nov 08

hi, spalladino, it sems to me that you have a good family background, which is good. My parents have never been able to afford a car, even a motocycle. But from what you said, I think you are partly independent instead of totally independent. Being totally independent means that you don't reply to your parents at all.

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

i am financially independent at the age of 21, when i got my first job after i graduated in college, i am not as big as that salary of yours but ive tried my best to budget my earnings.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Thanks for your sharing, and hope that you can earn more in the future.

@jordan04n (463)

• United States

29 Nov 08

One or any one is totally independant fincially when one can pay his own way to live and doesn't depend on parents. I got a job teaching school after graduation and have been finicially independant ever since. I had rather help other than asd for hrlp myself. With independance comes freedom and with freedom comes a life of happiness.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Thanks for sharing, and I totally agree with the last sentence you said: with independence comes freedom and with freedom cmes a life of happiness. I wished I would be a teacher when I was a little girl, but as time pass, i changed, I prefer to do business instead of being a teacher, because usually, business men earn more money than teachers. Good luck!

• Malaysia

29 Nov 08

I was partially dependend during my college years and became fully depended when I got my job after graduation at the age of 22. My parents are really proud that I can look after myself and even taking care of some of the household responsiblities like paying all the utility bills and etc.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Thanks for sharing, and yes, being independent and being helpful in a family is something worth proud of, I believe you can make better than now in the future. Wish you good luck.

@jedimind (200)

• Singapore

29 Nov 08

i'm in the process of being independent. i just graduated from university and now i am ready to work. i haven't found a job yet because i have not been looking. in fact, i am teaching guitar as a means for income for now. In 6 month's time, i'll join my dad's company and become a financial advisor. till then, i'll still be dependent on my parents, but i'm not getting any pocket allowance from them anymore. as for other things like my own home etc, i think i'll still have to live in my parent's house until i have enough money to by my own house

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• China

29 Nov 08

try to be indpendent, you should also try to hunt a job, try to rent a room and pay the bill by youselves.Yes it is a process, but if you determine enough, you can make it. And it is worth proud of being independence.

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

i became financially independent when I was 21. After I graduated, there was a period where I sort of bummed around but I went and look for a job because its a nice thing, having a money of your own.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Thanks for you sharing, and yes having our own money is good. To me, there's nothing more attractive than money and romantic

@ersmommy1 (12588)

• United States

28 Nov 08

I left home to live on my own at 18. My father told me never to ask for anything. And I never did. Not even when times were tougher. So from the age of 18 I supported myself.

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• China

29 Nov 08

Wow, I can not help why. Did you leave home without any preparation? Like when you leave home, have you found a job already? or at least you have a plan in your mind? I can't imagin such situation that a father ask his child to leave home that way.

@smiley83 (1534)

• Malaysia

29 Nov 08

hey, well, i started to work in the beginning of the year as a research assistant at the dean's office in the university where i'm basically studying. i worked for 4 months. and then, i moved to teach in a college during the summer's time, and now i'm writing... the semester will start in the middle of next month..so, at the moment, i'm trying to get some income before the semester starts. as i'll start working and studying at the same time... hopping i can manage it.. i don't want my parents to keep on paying my school fee, so, i'm gonna try my best to work and study.. wish me luck ^_* smiley,

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• China

29 Nov 08

Hi, from what you said, I know our college life is quite colorful. Since you are studying, the most important things is studying instead of earning money, but still, I wish you good luck, and balance your study and your work well.

@iamcdy (1119)

• Philippines

28 Nov 08

I became totally independent financially when I was 20 years old. That was the time when I had my first job and a month after my graduation. At that time, I was so happy to receive my first salary. 7 years after that, I never asked for money from my parents again. I know that it was a total relief for them because I was their last child to go to school. I know my parents are proud of me too when they knew I had my job and have a way of earning my own money. It was also a time for me to become a responsible and matured adult.

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• China

29 Nov 08

I do think that when people become financially independent, he/she is more likey to be become mature more quickly. I still can remember my first time to received my salary vividly, but I didn't much happy, because the first time I just received salary for half month.

@nimnim74 (250)

• Philippines

29 Nov 08

After my graduation I had a private patient right a way I'm a Physical Therapist and that supports me a bit and later I found my full time job so I never ask money from my parents and now that I'm married I tried to give them some financial support even if they don't ask anything from me.

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• China

29 Nov 08

I think Physical Therapist can earn a lot of money... not like my job, we need to sell a lot before we can earn a little bebefit.

• Hungary

28 Nov 08

I became somehow financially independent when I was 17. That's when I got my first job. I was a DJ in a local radio station. I paid my prom taxes, dress etc. Now, I'm far away from my family and I'm working a full time job, in the meantime I'm also a student (thankfully, I have good grades and got a scholarship). I'm living with my hubby, we have a rent to pay each month so, yes, I guess we're financially independent. Though every Christmas my dad insists in sending us money. He was never good in buying gifts for family.

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• China

29 Nov 08

17 years old, that's really young. In china,nomally, children begin to go to the school at the age of five, and graduate from the univeristy at the age of 23. To start to work at earlier age is good, because experience becomes more and more important. graduates without working experience are not easy to find a job.

@employmentdep (126)

• United States

28 Nov 08

when we are in certain age, we are usually finding ways to make some money. in my country, if you are over 18 , it is necessary to get a job to have nearly all you want. you always must have responsability at time to manage the money, and save up a lot.

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• China

29 Nov 08

yes, at my eighteen, I just leave home for higher education, instead of getting a job. My education haven't ended at that time. But I did get part time job when I was a college student, as a family tutor.