**A new horizon:**
In the course of my college years, I thoroughly studied music theory and orchestration, and I was fortunate enough to promptly get hold of a job offering soon after I graduated. I was hired for a placement as the lead composer for a small growing company with several new projects. This also meant I had to move roughly 300kms away from where I’d lived my entire life, to pursue a novel path in my country’s metropolis.
Education in my country is affordable for the majority of the population, a modest part-time job, working 25 hours per week, was enough for me to pay my monthly tuition and keep ¾ of the total payout. I’m also moderately frugal and it’s quite unusual of me to spend money beyond absolute necessities, particularly because financial independence has always been of the utmost importance to me. But not because I intended to be abundantly rich, rather, it was for the sake of independence itself. Collectively, by the end of my 3 years in college, these factors, along with some motherly assistance, gave rise to my ability to amount enough money to afford a down payment for my own home.