127: Adulting and Life After College as a First-Gen Professional with Marisol Ibarra
This week our special guest is Marisol Ibarra (she/her) who discusses the topic of adulting and life after college as a first-gen professional.
Marisol Ibarra is the founder of Here Comes the Sun Podcast, where she helps first-generation students, college graduates, and professionals navigate the things that schools don’t teach. By day, Marisol is a legislative director who helps draft policy for communities of color in the state of California. She is also a proud daughter of immigrants.
In this episode, we discuss:
-Her experience majoring in Political Science at Cal Poly Pomona, completing a senior thesis, and studying abroad in Dubai and Hong Kong
-How working a 9am to 5pm internship helped prepare her for the workforce
-The post-graduation struggles of working full-time, not having a job, or going straight to grad school
-Money talk surrounding how to negotiate salary and benefits as a new professional and how to budget
-Time-management and self-care tips!
You can connect with Marisol by following her at:
@herecomesthesun_podcast on Instagram
Don’t forget to sign up for my upcoming financial literacy and budgeting workshop on March 26: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-money-movidas-financial-literacy-and-budgeting-101-registration-296329478447
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