AfterCollege.com (FMB) Start Day

FAMILY MONTHLY BUDGET STARTING POINT:

Today you will build on the research you completed Monday.  You are responsible for not only finding a college and major
you are interested in, but finding your first job after college.  YOU
MAY NOT FIND A JOB IN PHILADELPHIA OR THE REGIONAL AREA.  You must find
an "ENTRY-LEVEL" job outside the Philadelphia Area (Philadelphia,
Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, and Chester, Camden, Burlington, and Gloucester Counties are off limits).



Use the College and Major you chose on Monday and go to the following website https://www.aftercollege.com/.  Look on the right side of the opening page and you will see a box
that says "Get Started Today".  Select a College you are interested
attending (SCHOOL).  Enter a (MAJOR) you are likely to study.  Set the
(GRADUATION DATE) for MAY of 2013 and click EXPLORE NOW.





If you chose professional training that did not
require college, you must use Monster.com, Careerbuilder, Craigslist, or
other employment search sites to find your first job away from the
Philadelphia area.  You will have to search in a part of the country
that interests you, and you still need to identify how you were trained
to work in your chosen field.  Ask me if you have any questions about
this.  If you joined the Military, ask me to help you identify a base to
live near so you can complete the budget that way.



You may have to SIGN IN (Create A Free Account).  Use your class GMAIL to sign up, and select a password you can remember.



Now you must choose a job that you are interested in.  Once you find the
job you must research where you will be working.  Look up the company
that is hiring for that position and where the office is.  You will need
to find an actual, accurate address to use.  You must also copy the Job
Title and Job Description for use later.



Everyone in class will start with $36,000/year in base pay.  This will
be your NET pay after taxes and deductions so you can spend that money on
living expenses and anything else you need to buy to survive.  We will
discuss your purchases in more depth next week.  For now, once you know
what you are doing for a living and where you are working, you are now
ready to find an apartment.  You need to find a place to live near where
you work, or someplace that will not cost a fortune to commute from. 
Everyone must live outside the Philadelphia Area.  You may not live with
family, but if you and someone from Crossroads have chosen the same
place to work in (Same City or Area), you may share an apartment or
living arrangement.  This will help your overall budget.  You must still
keep separate budgets, but you can share the costs.  Depending on where
you live, you will have to decide how much to spend on transportation
for work.  You may use Craigslist or other Real Estate and Apartment
Finder websites to find places to live.



Once you have found all the information above and written it down on
paper or a Word/Google Doc to save, please fill out and submit the
following form completely (The more accurate and complete your answers
are, the easier it will be to do additional tasks for your budget):



https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p7xEGjupnxhzFprOUWFTwsKDHD43kPXer55wIKe9-0A/viewform



I was going to assign cities for you to find jobs in, but this is more
realistic.  If you take this project seriously, you will be surprised as
what you will learn about how much things cost and how keeping an
accurate budget will save you money, time, and aggravation.  Previous
students who complete this project correctly have enjoyed it and learned
a lot about their future.  I hope you have fun working on it too.  You
will present to the class your final budgets, so be careful and
accurate.



Good Luck!



- Mr. S