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Confidence is Great, Right? Nope, It’ll Wreck Your Life

We’re all taught to be confident from childhood.  You know, those confidence boosters like getting a trophy no matter where you placed, parents telling you that you can do anything in life and so on.  On some level, having confidence in yourself and what you can achieve does allow you to think big, stretch your [...]

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Would You Ever Pay for an MBA With Your OWN Money?

A few years ago, I wrapped up an MBA that was primarily funded by my employers (I paid for books).  It was a decent program and I’m glad I did it for multiple reasons both professional and personal (for instance, I have my MBA program to thank for this blog ironically, when for my New [...]

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A Week in India: An Education…

I’m taking the final few moments here in India to jot some notes down on my impressions and learnings as an American who has only traveled to tourist destinations in Europe and some Carribean Islands as opposed to going to a developing country on business and taking some time to see the raw, unsanitized version [...]

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Off to Mumbai! Suggestions?

I found out last week I’ll be headed to Mumbai, India in the next couple weeks.  While a bit of a surprise, I already had some vaccines and preparations out of the way a few years back when I was about to go until my project was canceled.  This time around, I just had to [...]

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I Was Fired for Confronting a Sexual Predator. Why Did Penn State “Leaders” Turn a Blind Eye?

The first (and hopefully only) job I was fired from was when I was 17. It wasn’t because I was a lousy worker, stole merchandise or I called out sick a lot. It was because I confronted a sexual predator on store grounds. My manager and the store owner have to live with their actions, [...]

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6 Shocking Reasons Companies Announce HUGE Layoffs Years in Advance

It seems like every day, even in this “recovery”, there’s a new headline with a large company touting their latest round of layoffs.  While the headlines and the numbers announced are widely publicized, I haven’t seen any news articles on WHY companies make these announcements the way they do. Why do companies make these enormous [...]

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Unemployment by Major – Some Degrees Pay While Others Leave YOU Paying

A few months back, I wrote an article that didn’t go over too well.  It was titled, “A Question for all you Communications Majors“.  The article was initially meant to focus on how kids are going to college, taking on massive debt and graduating with majors that leave them unable to pay it down given [...]

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6 Critical Financial Miscalculations I’ve Made – That You May Be Making as Well

You might think I’m a hypocrite for what I’m about to admit (since I blog about personal finance), but this is reality.  In the past, I’ve made some wildly erroneous assumptions about our future ranging from how much we’d be making and spending each year to how our investments would perform.  Many of these misconceptions [...]

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Help a Reader: Pension Plan Frozen – What To Do with 3 Choices

I got a good question from a reader and wanted to share it with you.  Here it is; I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on how he might best handle this and then I’ll weigh in with my thoughts after hearing from some of you finance buffs.  While things like pension rules and IRA [...]

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43% Increase in Healthcare Premium for Me in 2012. How Bad Is Yours?

If I didn’t have side income from blogging I’d be pretty pissed each year when we get our new benefits options for the next year.  I guess it’s downgraded to just being annoyed and not “pissed”.  I understand that healthcare costs continue to exceed the rate of inflation.  So, inflation’s 3%, healthcare rises 6%.  That’s [...]

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