The Innovation Academy is also an opportunity to us, students, to discover new interests. This is my second month in this program and I have already discovered a new one. Finance is more than difficult statistics and problems, it teaches us a way to manage our money wisely and this is surprisingly something I got interested to learn.
My dad is an engineer economist, so finance is a topic he has heard of before and something he´s really interested to talk about. We usually spoke about some of this but I never payed that much attention. Most of the things I know about finance is because of him and after school, after we had our first class doing this unit, I actually payed attention to what he was saying. This time, I also shared some ideas.
Going back to my dad, he has tried to explain the stock market several times, but none have I really understood what it is and how it works. Our future project for this unit is actually investing money in the stock market and learning from the experience. I am feeling excited about this. However, I know this is going to be a challenge, no doubt.
I find it interesting how many people in the world has money problems and I've realized that most people who do, do because they never learned how to manage their money or about banking. This means, they never took a finance class when they were in school, which is terrible. Money, as we know, is everywhere! How come we spend so much time studying other important subjects and finance is not one of them?