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

November 9, 2011

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

November 6, 2011

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

November 2, 2011

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, a 401k [...]

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

October 30, 2011

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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Is Working Overtime Worth It? The Study, 100 Hours/Week and Work-Life Balance

October 23, 2011

I came across an interesting article linking to a prior study evaluating whether working overtime was worth the downsides.  Here was an excerpt cited: “Overtime work hours generally are associated with increased work stress, fatigue and work-family interference. When overtime work is required, this appears to offset the otherwise greater happiness and mental healthiness produced [...]

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Irony: Professor That Tried to Kill My Career Wants to Connect on LinkedIn

October 11, 2011

I couldn’t help but laugh when I got a LinkedIN invitation this week from my old college professor.  Long story short, I got the offer of a lifetime right around graduation time and the company kind of botched the order of activities.  While I had already been extended the offer and passed the drug test, [...]

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What If Unemployment Benefits Were Structured as a Loan Instead of a Freebie?

September 18, 2011

There are a lot of strong emotions on either side of the Unemployment Benefits discussion.  On one hand, there are the current unemployed who are pretty miserable right now.  Many can’t find a job commensurate with their skill set and prior pay rate and they’re burning through their savings.  They’re sick of hearing politicians, the [...]

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I Pissed Off a Recruiter Today. Is Salary a 4-Letter Word?

September 13, 2011

I have some mixed feelings about pissing off a recruiter today with a pretty good company.  I received a LinkedIn inquiry today about interest in a position with another firm.  I’m not actively out looking to make a move, especially if it entails relocating – heck, I just put in this pool!  But on the [...]

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Say Bye to Full-Time Employment: You’re Likely to be a Temp in the Future

September 6, 2011

There’s been a growing trend in corporate America whereby positions that were historically held by full-time employees are now being sourced to more “flexible” temporary employees.  They may be termed “contractors”, “consultants”, “independent contractors” or myriad other names, but the temp worker concept remains the same.  The reasons businesses are increasingly going the temp workforce [...]

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College Degrees That Leave You With DEBT FOR LIFE

July 4, 2011

A few weeks ago, I published an article that pissed off a lot of people.  Well, Communications major really.  It was titled, “A Question for All You Communications Majors“.  In retrospect, the article I wrote wasn’t really the message I intended to convey.  What started off as a post on the ramifications of taking on [...]

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