Tomorrow I’m participating in First Gen American’s Coffee Talk, so I didn’t want to do a big post tonight. Instead, I’m stealing an idea from the brilliant Jana at Daily Money $hot and posting a “money tune”. Not only is this song about money, this is a video done by one my absolute favorite local bands, the BOWI Band. The moral of the story is- don’t believe the coal board (or your bosses) when they sayread more…
This is, in the words of Sam from Financial Samurai, a whale post. I usually try to break essays like this into two posts, but I think this one works best as a single piece. It was, appropriately enough, inspired by Sam’s own whale post- a guest post over at Untemplater called Quit Your Job and Die Alone, which is about looking honestly at revenue vs profits when making the decision to quit your day jobread more…
It’s a Blog Swap! Today’s topic is How to raise a millionaire – developing your child’s entrepreneurial aptitude. I am very excited to be swapping blogs with Money for College Project, where they recently changed their focus from paying for their own college costs to saving for college for their soon to be child. I hope you enjoy this take on the topic, and don’t forget to hop on over to Money for College Project toread more…
Have you heard of the six item clothing diet? Google it if you want more information, but basically, it’s this idea that you don’t really need more than six items of clothing (apart from undergarment type stuff), and that if you do go down to only six items, no one will even notice. Now, I am not good enough to get down to six pieces of clothing, even if all the camisoles I own do notread more…
I got a call this weekend from a friend of mine who wanted to share some good news. On Friday, she was called in for an unexpected interview and then offered a new position- one making more money than she’s ever made before. This friend has been underemployed for quite some time. She’s been working as a manager at a comic and games shop (funny, when we were teens, that seemed like a dream job), butread more…
When my boss, my department’s executive director, told me that he wanted me to take the lead on going through resumes and determining who we would interview for a director position we have open, I wasn’t thrilled. I know nothing about the work the director oversees, I’ve never hired anyone, and this is for a position at a higher level that I am. (I’m a manager.) I didn’t think I was really qualified to do this.read more…
I rarely work from home. This is not because I can’t- it’s pretty standard in our office that salaried employees work from home one day a week, but because I choose not to. As the office manager (okay, my title is a bit more complicated than that, but essentially, I’m the office manager) I feel that it’s best if I am in the office. The managers and directors I work with often like to swing byread more…
Thanks to Jana @ Daily Money Shot for this guest post For most of us, work is a necessity. We need to work to earn money to pay for things like housing, food, transportation, clothes, utilities and the occasional splurge. If you’re like me, you like to leave your personal life at home and your work life at work. But what happens if something personal occurs and there’s no way possible to take time off withoutread more…
