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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We make financial decisions day in, day out. The items we buy, the money we save, the goals we set. So it can be easy to forget that some of the biggest and potentially life-changing money decisions might be hiding in plain sight. To help us get a sense of these decisions, what they are and how you can make them a clarity, we are joined today by Kel Gallivan.
Kel, you are very welcome to Money Talks. It is good to be back. So, Kel, before we get into it, tell me, do people tend to get so caught up in the little decisions that they can lose sight of the bigger, more important ones?
This is a really interesting one because when I was pulling this list together... A lot of them are ones that we may not want to even think or we may not want to make a decision on, but they do have such a huge impact in our lives. So we get caught up on, you know, maybe saving 10 percent here or, you know, shopping around for this, which is really important. Do not get me wrong with that.
Everything to do with money is important. But sometimes these bigger decisions I think can have a social as well as an emotional impact. And you'll see as we go through them and some of them you might think are a bit out there, but I think some of them aren't necessarily socially as acceptable to even discuss.
But they are important because no matter what you do in life and whatever choices you make, you have to deal with money. And as we work through life, the idea is that we're building it and we don't necessarily have the skills. We're not born with the skills to deal with this. And we're expected to come out the other side with plenty of money, a good old pension, have this amazing retirement.
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Chapter 2: What are the everyday financial decisions we often overlook?
I guess as well, you're going to empower and support each other to go for the bigger salary, to go for that job, to, you know, to push yourself. And that's very helpful, too.
It is because you're a team, ultimately your team. And if you're trying to build a plan together, we need to get the deposit. We need to kind of plan for college for the kids. We need to do all these different things. Well, having somebody who has your back or having somebody who's going to go, actually, yeah, look, you know, I'll take some more responsibility in the house. You go for this one.
Or if somebody loses a job, what's the plan? You know, do they take time to reskill? Is there backup there? You know, is one person OK bringing in the money till the other one finds their feet? Like they're huge pieces that are not just money, but it's trust as well.
Yes.
Number two, having children or choosing to be child free. This is a very controversial one. So when I say like they're socially tough, There are so many things when it comes to children, not just fertility journeys, choosing to have them or not. Some people, they would love to have them and life just has not worked out that way.
And there's some people who make an active choice going, I don't see this in my future. And that can be a really tough one because socially, but you're a lovely couple, you know, look, you're so intelligent, well-suited, whatever. Why don't you have kids? What a waste of genetics that you're not. But we have to respect that person's decision or that couple's decision on what they do.
And when you do have children, and I remember being part of a piece of research just last year, the average cost in Ireland to bring a child from cradle to college, and it was the Leah Cradle College Cost Index, was £339,000. thousand euro per child. And that was up 60 percent from 10 years ago. So having a child is absolutely a financial decision.
And when they broke it down, it was like 167 euro per household. And that's huge. That's a huge amount of your net income that you have to have. And having children, I have them myself. They are the best thing I ever did.
But there is a huge amount of planning around making sure that I, as a parent, can give them everything I can and have them in sports and get them the materials for school and all those kind of things. That is a massive expense that people nowadays pay. It's much more of a decision as opposed to nearly a choice.
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Chapter 3: How does marrying the right person impact financial stability?
What if... You have two kids, right? And one kid maybe gets a cert or a diploma and they're finished. They're ready in a year or two years. They don't even go to college at all, but they get a job and they start working. Then you have the other kid and they maybe go on and they do a degree and do a master's and do a PhD. That could take 10 years.
Whereas one person is out in the workforce and they have a six or eight or nine year head start. And let's say they're a bit of a go getter and they have a good head on their shoulders and they're working hard. Well, that's the bones of a decade of experience, pay rises, moving up along the ladder, testing out different careers. And that can push you up along the pay scale very, very fast.
And then you have somebody maybe coming out with a PhD and PhDs are amazing, right? But they're 10 years behind and they might command a higher salary, but would they command a decade's worth of a higher salary? And if you had somebody sitting in front of you looking to hire them, would you hire the person with the bones of a decade experience or the bones of 10 years education?
Different jobs will look for different things. But sometimes it is worth sitting down and going, well, what do I want to do with my life? Do I need to get an extra four or six years of education? Or can I learn this on my feet? And a beautiful thing as well we need to think about is, We can always learn. The amount of courses now that you can learn as you need.
So, for example, I only got my master's, it was eight years ago, master's in science. And I had my QFA qualification was about, oh goodness, six years ago. And that was well into my late 30s and 40s.
Yeah.
And the amount of people that I know that maybe worked in IT for years and then they're getting law degrees and moving into that area, like the specialist experience you can build up with that. And if you have something, a few years of experience, and then you get a slightly adjunct education to it, so like IT with law, Wow. How employable are you then when you do it that way?
So there's loads of different ways to cut education. So it doesn't have to be straight through and then get your work experience. You can slice and dice it any way you want. Go in, trust yourself, work hard and work smart.
Yeah, I love that. And I also think it can go over people's heads sometimes that you can go back as an adult and you don't need work. all the Leaving Cert point requirements as well.
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Chapter 4: What are the financial implications of having children versus being child-free?
You're not just doing this and then just throwing your money. We don't want that. We want you to be comfortable with it and have it as just another skill, another string in your bow.
And number nine, which is the final one on your list. This is comparing yourself to others financially. So this is something that we need to make a decision about. Are we going to do that or are we not going to do that? Oh, this is so hard because humans, we always compare ourselves.
Somebody will always have shinier hair. Somebody will always be taller. Somebody will always be slimmer. We can't help ourselves.
You know, we're just in that... We're just human that way. So when it comes to money, you could have somebody and they might get a pay rise and they might go, they're really happy. It was like a 5% pay rise. Like that is so cool. And they're delighted with themselves. And they're delighted with themselves because maybe the average pay rise is 2%.
But if you hear that the guy at the desk across from you got a 6% pay rise, you're going to be like, What the heck?
And we start comparing ourselves. And then it turns from a feel good experience to a stressful experience. And we start doubting maybe our ability or the manager doesn't like me or all these kind of things. And when you do that, that begins this spiral. And that can cause a lot of actual, the fallout from that, a lot of negative thoughts around our money. I'm not good enough.
I'm not bringing in enough. Why are they getting more than me? And that can be really hard. And that can lend itself to actually bad spending habits because you go, well... fine, I'm going to treat myself and buy this thing or fine, I'm going to do this or I'm... It's just, it's not a healthy place to be. Yes.
Because another place I've seen it a lot is particularly in higher income areas or jobs where people have overall higher incomes. Somebody could be on a really high income, like...
Pick a really high number for income. I would say in Ireland, it's like 250,000. Perfect. Right.
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