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Efficiency is the Highest Form of Beauty
This year, I’ve been spending a lot more time at the local elementary school, as our boy has rejoined his friends in fifth grade after two years of homeschooling. Through the daily bike rides to and from school, and my weekly gig as a volunteer math/engineering teacher for a small group of boisterous advanced learners, I […]
What does your job tenure say about you?
Recently, I wrote about networking strategies that can help advance your career, and that got me to wondering what a “typical” career looks like these days. How have careers been affected by the Great Recession? Are people able to stay in a job and retire if they love it, or is the job market more chaotic than that? And what does it say about you either way? For instance, are there certain features of someone’s resume that might identify them as a baby boomer, Gen X, or millennial? Could that even pose an advantage or disadvantage for them?
Lifetime Careers and Pensions Have Gone the Way of the Dodo
People often fall prey to the “rosy retrospection” bias or fallacy, where they have a tendency to remember the past as being better than it actually was. So while your parents’ or grandparents’ generation would likely have said differently at the time, if you ask folks today about those past decades, they would tell you that it was a stable time when it wasn’t too hard to stay with one employer for all or the majority of their careers and retire with a fat pension.
Whether or not that was actually people’s lived experience, it is generally acknowledged that the retirement outlook for 20-somethings today is quite different. It is expected now that individuals will hold numerous jobs throughout their lifetimes. In fact, people may have not only different jobs, but different careers over the course of their working years.
Morning Brew Review: Is it Worth it?
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Journal the Journey
Letâs face it. Life is busy and if you donât take the time to reflect on your victories and the things that matter, they can…
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The Stupidly Simple Secret Sauce of Personal Finance
People yearn for hidden knowledge–the secret sauce! But personal finance doesn’t have to be complicated. The secret sauce of personal finance is simple.
Ultimate Resources for Teaching Kids About Money
Raising financially savvy children involves teaching them a variety of aspects from budgeting to planning, earning and saving. Besides giving them an understanding of the value of a dollar, teaching children about fiscal responsibility helps prepare them for life in the real world. Money management is a vital life skill and it is never too
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How to interview a prospective employer
Speaking about building wealth, J.D. Roth felt that he could never make this point emphatically enough: “Frugality is important, but if you want to make real progress, increase your income.” It’s in this context that being able to ace an interview becomes a very important skill. And certainly part of the interview process should include your asking questions of a prospective employer to make sure that the job and the company are right for you.
If you are early in your career, though, it is natural to approach a job interview as if it’s a test that you might or might not pass. But this perspective could lead to some undesirable results:
- Firstly (and ironically), it may prevent you from highlighting your strengths.
- Secondly, it may keep you from finding out the things that you need to know in order to properly consider a job offer if they do want to hire you.
Here are three more ways having a test mentality can affect how you conduct your interview and some strategies for how to avoid potential missteps.
How to Kickstart an Emergency Fund
Besides having a spending plan and saving for retirement, one of the major tenets of financial wellness is to have a healthy emergency fund. But the reality is that when youâre juggling multiple financial prioritiesâor simply have a rough time covering your bills each monthâbuilding the recommended three to six months for the unexpected is
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Why You Might Want to Start Paying Your Student Loans in College
When I was 26 years old, I paid off my student loans just three years after graduation. People congratulated me on my task and couldnât believe how quickly Iâd done it, especially since I was only making $30,000 a year. But I wasnât that impressed. I knew how much money I had wasted in college,
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