I once had a job where I would travel to different university and college campuses with student credit card applications, trying to promote the company and get students to sign up. It was a fun job, and since I never had the opportunity to go to college, it gave me a little taste of what campus life was like.

I had always thought that credit cards for students was a great idea because there would never be another time in their lives when they would be as broke as they were at that moment. It would give them a short term fix, but could cause a long term problem and that concerned me a little bit. But it was my job to promote, so promote I would.

I was actually really good at that job and I handed out a lot of college student credit cards. I was at the top of my team for quite awhile and I earned some great rewards. Perhaps the greatest reward of that job was the experience of fitting in with college students and pretending, if only for awhile, that I was young and carefree like they were.