That feeling when your "friends" spend over $1.5m dollars of YOUR money

As excited as I am about the imminent return of NFL football, I'm always heartbroken to see family and "friends" taking advantage of players: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/08/trent-richardson-money

Photo credit Matt Detrich of the Indianapolis Star, from http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2016/06/08/trent-richardson-has-designs-yellow-jacket/85626540/

This ties into the fact that there's an alarming lack of financial literacy in this country! If you don't watch your business and make a plan for what to do with your cash, you'll look up one day and wonder where it all went!

However, as the #3 overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, Trent Richardson signed a rookie contract for over $20 million guaranteed, plus a $13.3 million signing bonus. So the lost $1.6 million shouldn't destroy his finances, as long as he didn't blow through the other $13 million that should be left after taxes.

A reminder that if you want to avoid being broke, you have to keep up the right mindset--whether you're an NFL player or a grad student!

How would you do on the Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test?

Ever wonder what the Wonderlic test is like, or why prospective NFL players tend to perform so poorly on it? Well, here's your chance to take a version for yourself: http://footballiqscore.com/

If you want the full experience, select "Full Quiz" and do not use a calculator--pen and paper only!

Your results will be compared to NFL players. Here's what I got, using my brain only--no pen/paper at all [only because I was under the impression that prospects couldn't use paper, either]:

For the record: I make sure I work within my employer's rules, unlike some people in this post! :P