Mildred Heath was recently honored as America's Oldest Worker for 2008. She and her husband bought a newspaper in Nebraska when she was 23. Today she's 100-years-old. She's been a journalist and publisher for 85 years and still works 30 hours, six days a week. "I enjoy working and things that need to be done I go ahead and do them," Mildred says in the video below. "So it should be some kind of inspiration."

Putting part of your paycheck aside for savings each month is one of the oldest cash savings tricks in the book, but it isn't always possible. 83 percent of SavvySugar readers admit to being more mindful of their money given the current economy, and that often means setting higher savings goals and being more methodical about where extra cash is put.

Do you transfer funds to savings every month automatically, or do you balance your checkbook and contribute what you can on a month-by-month basis?

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Students that planned to make a career in finance are still hopeful the market will bounce back up and they will find positions.

Wall Street recruiters have canceled or postponed visits to elite universities like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, because of the state of the markets, according to the New York Times. Still, business and finance students at schools across the US said they were not panicked about their futures and were confident that the financial markets would recover.

What's the backup plan? One student from Princeton said everyone is "studying for the LSATs right now, people who a month ago had no intention of ever going to law school.” Other students say they plan to look in different sectors or several areas to improve their chances of finding a job instead of specializing in one like they might have before the turn of the market.

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