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 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 Budgeting on Feb 22nd, 2008
Last week I wrote about the importance of direct deposit and this past week I got a good firsthand experience on why paying yourself first is so important. In case you haven’t heard this phrase before (in which case, welcome to the computer age), the idea is that saving and preparing for retirement is much [...]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 6th, 2008
I heard back from my work today and they told me it’s totally cool to continue writing on my blog despite it being kind of similar to what I’ll be doing for them.
But it’s great news, as I thought I would have to abandon something I’ve really grown attached to and am really excited about.
The [...]
It’s a question we all ask ourselves when we find a new job or when we just fantasize about the new job we’d like to have: If I was making X, then I could afford to do X.
After getting my new job, I spent a lot of time trying to calculate my new paycheck (I [...]
In case you didn’t know, I have been looking for a new job for a while and yesterday it finally happened. I got the offer and I’m taking it.
It’s a very exciting time even though with change comes a little anxiety and nervousness: What will my new coworkers be like? What’s the day-to-day going to [...]
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