This year like every year, I\u2019ll be paying someone to handle my self-assessment. I know it\u2019s pathetic \u2013 but why aren\u2019t we taught about this stuff at school? <\/p>\n
What I understand about money could be scratched on the edge of a 2p piece. With a stick. As the self-assessment deadline rolls towards me like a driverless logging truck of administrative horror along the icy motorway of financial woe, I have been reminded once again just how poor my financial education has been.<\/p>\n
I have never met, let alone talked to, a financial advisor. I don\u2019t really understand how mortgages work. I don\u2019t have a pension. I\u2019m terrified of my tax return. I don\u2019t know what other women doing comparable jobs earn. I didn\u2019t claim statutory maternity pay because, as a freelancer, I did not have any maternity leave. Until a few months ago, my mobile phone contract was still in my ex-boyfriend\u2019s name and coming out of his account despite the fact that we broke up more than 10 years ago and are both now married to other people (I was paying him back for it, but still). Two days before my 39th birthday I opened something called a lifetime Isa just because my friend Yasmin happened to tell me I should while I was peeling some potatoes, but I haven\u2019t managed to transfer any money into it because the website turns my brain into spat-out toothpaste.<\/p>\n
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