My first paycheck

From the eyes of a newbie and my first paycheck.

My first paycheck, I had been waiting for this moment way too long! The same day I picked my paycheck up from HR I drove to the nearest Bank of America, a few hours away, and cashed it. What a relief, my account went from cents to thousands in a matter of minutes. 

The only other time I have cashed a check this large was last years tax return which went straight from my bank account to an apartment deposit. It was actually stressful to have a paycheck with that much money, I didn't know what to do with it. My first paycheck sat in my bank account untouched for over a week as I ate egg sandwiches everyday and rationed my orange juice intake for the next few days. Finally after 12 missed calls from CitiBank Tuesday night, I made my move. As fast as the money went from my hands to my bank account, it went into the devils hands, loans. Now I am back to where I started a week ago, but I know another check will soon be in my hands and I will make my trip to Bank of America and a never ending cycle will have started, making  money and giving it all away to evil American Banks who steel money from the poor, I need to find my Roobinhood and move to Utopia.

I don't regret the choices I have made, going to college or having to pay for it, but really, $100,000, five years, yelling professors, thousands of hours of papers and homework all leading to my first paycheck.... was it really worth it? 

Hailey