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M A K I N G B A N K
How gleeful you’ll be once you see all that free money (Shutterstock)
Say you’re shopping and when you’re at the counter the cashier says, “Thanks for paying $150 for those shoes. Would you like to take with you an extra $40 as a thank-you for buying them?” Would you say no?
Let’s be real, your jaw would drop, you’d film the incident and it’d go viral because that doesn’t actually happen. Right? Actually, if one of the benefits you’re offered at work is an Employee Share Accumulation Plan (ESAP) that kind of does happen. That’s right, your employer is likely offering you free money and if you’re not enrolled in that plan, you’re missing out majorly. (The big money is in getting stock options but that comes later when you climb the ranks into top executive positions.)
When I got my first full-time job (benefits, the whole shebang) all of my more seasoned co-workers said the same thing…
