personal finance and career success
This is an old article from brip blap – almost four years ago – so in case you missed it the first time, here it is again… I have given some thought over the years to going back to school. Ah, to be back in the fraternity, drinking Schlitz, playing lacrosse and sleeping from 4 [...] Read more »
One of the most popular posts on brip blap was my post “8 steps to a six figure career” which now, thanks to The Gap Partnership is now in infographic form. I don’t ask this often, but if you like this you could definitely help me show this off with a Facebook like or a [...] Read more »
Here’s a tshirt I saw on a little girl once, which read: 1. I want it. 2. You buy it. 3. Any questions? I doubted the kid chose such a ridiculous shirt – I know from personal experience that kids are more likely to clamor for Angry Birds or Cars t-shirts than they are for [...] Read more »
An excellent infographic, courtesy of our friends at Statista. I’ve written before about how to become a billionaire. The world population as of 2010 was 6,840,507,003. Only 1,226 of those humans are billionaires, which is – in percentages – 0.000018 percent. The wealth increase in the world’s billionaires has been in their net worth, not [...] Read more »
Related to an earlier post about consulting, I had an interview with a ‘traditional employer’ back in the mid-2000s. I’d had a long standing consulting relationship with the company and was even offered a position with them about a year into working with them. Once every six months there would be a brief flurry of [...] Read more »
I recently purchased a new laptop – my old one was starting to overheat, the hard drive was full, and it was almost 4 years old. I use it a lot of for online money-making ventures, so it seems reasonable to replace my laptop before the old one kicks the bucket. And the power in [...] Read more »
If you have never seen the movie “Intolerable Cruelty” by the Cohen Brothers and starring George Clooney (heard of him?) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (heard of her? the T-Mobile lady?), you are missing some exceptionally clever dialogue (but before you rush out and rent it, I’ll warn you that it is has a dull and conventional [...] Read more »
Went to see “The Lorax” this weekend. Here’s a short commentary on expectations, politics, and message. I expected the theater to be packed. I loved the book as a kid, my kids have heard it many times and we were all eagerly awaiting the movie for a while. Since we were going to the first [...] Read more »
Bubelah had a good idea the other day as we discussed diets: saving money is, at its core, like dieting. You try to deny yourself something in the present for the sake of future gain. With money, it’s saving now for security and independence in the future. With dieting, it’s avoiding more food than you [...] Read more »
I continue to dabble a tiny, tiny bit in green juice. The biggest impediment I have to more enthusiastic adoption is cost (it’s quite pricey to buy a huge pile of veggies to make into one 16 ounce glass) and effort (cleanup is annoying). But there’s no excuse, really. I’ve written many, many times about [...] Read more »
We’re about halfway through America Saves Week and I started thinking about saving, naturally. I’ve written about saving money before, probably most infamously when I said that spending less than you earn was the wrong way to think. My thoughts haven’t changed much since I wrote that article a few years ago (yes, brip blap [...] Read more »
I have the best intentions to post links on Sundays, because there are a lot of articles worth reading. Here are a few thing this week: Help a Reader: Lump Sum or Monthly Payment (Free Money Finance): Good question. The People’s Tech Revolution (Infographic) | Frugal Dad What to Do If You Can’t Pay Your [...] Read more »