Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Happiness on Apr 15th, 2008
Last week I wrote about my feelings regarding the new TV that was given to M and I as a very generous shower gift. I got some pretty good feedback so I thought I would share the news that we finally went out there and picked out the one we liked, brought her home, and [...]
Posted in Happiness, Outside the box on Apr 11th, 2008
I love lists, especially when it comes to books. So I peruse as many lists as I can—which includes all the awards that are out there. I’m always in search of the perfect book (which is why I had readers pick my next book) and when the Pulitzer Prizes were announced this year I felt [...]
Ever since I became financially aware (thanks to Kiyosaki for that one), I’ve also become aware that there is absolutely no education when it comes to money for a person growing up in this country (I only went to college in the US, but back home I had no financial training either).
Lately I’ve been [...]
Every frugal person I know has a certain pride about it: you don’t need to spend money the way other people do. For whatever reason, it’s something to feel proud of—like we’ve managed to sidestep some of the financial pitfalls that are out there. We’re better than that.
But a few things have happened recently that [...]
About a year ago when I was looking for a new job, I started thinking about how I’d like to transition from my old job to the new one (when I got it). I was talking to M about it and I mentioned how I had always meant to live at this beach house my [...]
I’ve written a lot recently about my new job, but for those of you who aren’t familiar with the story I got a new job about a month ago in a completely different field from what I went to school for and from what I was working in before.
The new job is in the financial [...]
Well, it’s been about a week since my last post and a few things have happened that have kept me from writing. First of all, I got some kind of flu/plague hybrid that kicked my butt and kept me in bed for four days straight. I’m still not recovered but at least right now I [...]
Posted in Happiness on Feb 29th, 2008
At my old job I used to take a one-hour lunch break where I could run some errands, eat lunch, and surf the web. It wasn’t your average lunch break though: I usually sat outside (in the summer) or in a lounge area (during the winter) and read my book for around 40 minutes. This [...]
Posted in Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Feb 28th, 2008
I’ve been thinking a lot about my new job this week and how it has improved my outlook on certain things. And now, whenever I read tips on getting a new job or sensible advice like taking classes in something useful like public speaking, I keep encountering the same thing: change is extremely hard.
It has [...]
You hear about it everywhere: make sure you love what you do because it’s not worth it to spend the majority of your life at something you detest. But I’ve usually seen that as one of those cheesy/cliché phrases that somehow don’t apply to me.
It didn’t help that I had no connection at all to [...]
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