personal finance and career success, in balance with life
I’ve often fantasized about becoming an entrepreneur. It’s an easy thing for someone who works in the corporate world to do. I made a halfway move: I’m a consultant. I don’t really live ‘in’ the world that my corporate colleagues do, but I do physically sit in the same place and enjoy the same [...] Read more »
It seems that most parents are always lecturing their children with the old adage that says “money does not grow on trees” whenever their children seem to be asking for too many things. Money certainly does not grow on trees, but how are children supposed to know that? To all intents and purposes, some children [...] Read more »
Years ago when I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the idea of passive income lit my brain on fire. I had never thought of making money for nothing. I assumed that money was achieved only due to the hard-pressed exchange of time for money. Kiyosaki, the author of RDPD, assured us that passive income was [...] Read more »
Read this: In 2003, only two colleges charged more than $40,000 a year for tuition, fees, and room and board; by 2009, 224 were above that mark. The total amount of outstanding student loan debt is now more than $1 trillion. That’s from this NY Times article. The simple fact is that in the future the [...] Read more »
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 »
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 »
Today’s guest post comes from Jenny. In her own words: “I am currently a junior in college and living in New York City. Going through the job recruitment process now has made me reflect a lot on the past 3 years of my life. Here are some things I wish I had been told on [...] Read more »
A few years ago when I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the concept of passive income lit my brain on fire. I had never thought of the idea of making money for nothing. I assumed that money was achieved only due to the hard-pressed exchange of time for filthy lucre. Kiyosaki, the author of RDPD, [...] Read more »
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams (1957 – ), ‘The Dilbert Principle’ I wrote and published a post on Friday about the ‘pursuit of ends.’ It’s a vitriolic post about the current state of things in America, particularly as pertains to our economic system. It [...] Read more »
Patrick, of Cash Money Life fame long ago tagged me to give my best financial move in college. I posted this long ago, but it’s worth reposting. How I came to become a Russophile is an interesting story – I think. (me, in St. Petersburg, circa 1997) Learning an “exotic” foreign language, and how it [...] Read more »
Based on a few recent comments on some of my articles about careers (this one, for example), I started wondering about the difference in wealth between college graduates and skilled non-college graduates. A college graduate can usually expect to go into the professional world as a “white-collar” worker, earning substantially more than his non-college graduate [...] Read more »
I’ve spent nearly a lifetime, albeit a short lifetime, navigating through the United States educational system. I’ve succeeded, in a very traditional sense, throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary curriculums. Yet, as these studies are coming to an end, I’ve been doing a great deal of questioning as to what I’ve really learned throughout this time, [...] Read more »