Fff-Financial Matters

This subject gives me hiccups. Never fails, at least metaphorically. Imagine my surprise upon learning that there is such a term as financial engineering. I sure would fail that if it was a subject in school I had to take. Neither of those two words would qualify as particularly enticing or endearing for me. Well, of course I’ve always hated math.

I realized while talking with a friend who is a lot more close-fisted about money than I am that just like any other thing in the world, how people look money will always be different. We can judge each other endlessly by how we handle our finances (”too much” on both extremes), but it doesn’t take a financial engineering book or consulting a person with a quant job to know that the more we strive to earn and the less we spend, the more we save. But it’s never black and white. As long as you’re dealing with your own, with what is yours, and not stepping on anybody else’s toes, then for me you’re no fair game. Of course some people ruin their lives sometimes because of the inability to handle finances right. That’s another story. A problem is a problem, but individual perception isn’t all the time.