After leaving Wall Street & joining a tech company, I noticed a bunch of my new co-workers and friends would all turn to me to help them with basic finance things - stuff like 401k's, HSAs, and whether or not they should buy our company's stock options. They'd always say things like "Wow - you're so lucky you spent time on Wall Street and know how to do these things." and I got a HUGE kick out of that comment

Eventually - it hit me - if people IN finance don't know this stuff, and people NOT IN finance don't know this stuff… HOW COME NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT PERSONAL FINANCE? Why aren't we teaching it in schools?