Based on my own experiences (around same age) and discussions with friends, the depth of your financial education is the exception. The checkbook one comes up

Based on my own experiences (around same age) and discussions with friends, the depth of your financial education is the exception. The checkbook one comes up a regularly, while loans and interest rates come up in the context of math classes. I guess I'd also be curious how deep those topics went. Like for apartment leases, notions of how to find out tenants rights in your area and how to push back on bad landlords. For budgets, what do you do if you can't make a budget work. Things to watch out for when considering employers and common scams. A lot of this stuff I was able to pick up over the years but if you get screwed early on it can really affect your life trajectory. Sources seem less objective than when I was learning this stuff. If you're first gen semi-wealthy - say a SWE in the valley - there's a whole other education that's necessary... I have talked to many SWEs that don't understand their comp.