personal finance and career success, in balance with life
I didn’t get that much out of college, other than friends, knowledge, life experiences, and the ability to blow up an opponent in lacrosse. I majored in math, and now I’m a finance and systems consultant. Related, fine. But they are two different disciplines. I studied linguistics, and while I’m able to speak [...] Read more »
This haunting picture comes from NASA. Never forget. Read more »
It’s amazing what a little time off can do for your attitude towards work. It’s why so many of us love to jet abroad for a week-long getaway each year: we come back feeling refreshed, relaxed and ready to tackle the weeks ahead. But if you don’t have a holiday planned in the imminent [...] Read more »
The quotes (10, plus a bonus): “Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.” -Oscar Wilde I’ve found this to be [...] Read more »
Thanks to Feng Shui At Work for the infographic! Read more »
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” -Norman Schwarzkopf Read more »
This post was updated (there was a mistake in it earlier). Thanks to Ellipse BeautyLight for making the infographic! Read more »
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. - Albert Einstein I love pop culture, as long as it is MY pop culture. I love Star Trek, Star Wars, the Matrix and the Lord of the Rings and don’t care much for American Idol. Loving one and [...] 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 »
photo credit: mistress_f In part 1 of this three-part series I talked about walking away from various responsibilities in your life. In part 2 I talked about whether it would be easy to leave them. Now I’m going to bring it together with my thoughts on “walking away from it all.”Would it make you happier? [...] Read more »
photo credit: ribena_wrath In part 1 of this three-part series I talked about walking away from various responsibilities in your life. How easy would it be to leave them? Work: If you stop to think about it, you have almost nothing stopping you from quitting your work. If you own a business, you can sell [...] Read more »
photo credit: urbanshoregirl Have you ever just wanted to chuck it all and walk away? To just walk away from your commitments and responsibilities and start over again somewhere else? Why didn’t you? I started thinking about the practicalities of walking away from my entire life of responsibilities after learning an acquaintance had done it. [...] Read more »