On the Road to Financial Freedom (a sponsored post)

Regular readers know that sponsored posts are a rarity in this blog.  That is because I choose to write them only if I believe in the product or the message being relayed by the product.  Last year, I agreed to do a sponsored post for Sun Life Financial for their Sun Shorts.   This year, I am doing another one because I believe the message that the company wants to share is of utmost importance.  It also gives me chance to share about a topic which I also love but doesn't fit this blog's theme :D

I work for the government and among the thrusts of my agency is financial literacy and education.  Next year, I will be embarking on a major career change.  In the course of interviews, I was asked whether I would be most interested in policy making or advocacy.  Without hesitation, I answered advocacy.

Experience Sun Shorts - The Debt (a sponsored post)

I rarely do sponsored posts.  In fact, I believe that this is my first sponsored post for this year.  However, when I was approached by Nuffnang to share about Sun Life Financial's new campaign - Experience Sun Shorts, I immediately agreed.  You see, the campaign talks about financial education and financial literacy - something which I really believed in and previously blogged about.

My entire family are believers of insurance plans and we have benefited from it.  In 2005, I had the opportunity to do my LL.M. or Master of Laws degree in Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  My parents opted to fund my studies and we decided not to take a loan.  Instead, we cashed out on one of our insurance policies and used the funds for my studies and living expenses.