Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Jobs, Motivation on Apr 24th, 2008
Trent over at The Simple Dollar has a great exercise in one of his posts for everyone out there that has a traditional job. He puts his readers in a hypothetical situation: pretend you will be fired on Friday (it came out on Saturday so you’d have the whole week to think about it). What […]
Posted in Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Apr 18th, 2008
I was reading something over on Get Rich Slowly (I just can’t remember which article it was, I visit the site every day) that basically asked readers what their dream job was. Dream job was defined as the job you would do if you weren’t getting paid. It reminded me of my series of posts […]
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 was always the kid in school that didn’t like working in groups. I liked doing things my way and I liked getting them done on my own. And even today I still do: part of my always feels like my way is the best way and so why have anyone else’s opinion in there […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Jobs on Feb 20th, 2008
Before I even began my new job, I knew that adjusting would be difficult. I constantly looked back at all the jobs I’ve had and how tough it is when you first start. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how hard it was, especially as time goes by and you get more and more comfortable. So […]
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
Last week I wrote about the five ways blogging about personal finance has helped me, and it got me thinking about why I blog. Is it because I may make some money out of it? Get a job out of it?
Sure, all of those are reasons that have kept me motivated to keep working on […]
Posted in Jobs on Jan 22nd, 2008
For the past few months I have been reading tons of articles with tips for job seekers. Over and over, there were a few tips I kept seeing repeated over and over:
Networking is the most important thing (which relates to the next bullet)
Tell everyone you know that you are looking for a job
Don’t bother putting […]
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