Off to Mumbai! Suggestions?

November 27, 2011

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?

November 15, 2011

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

November 13, 2011

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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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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The End of the World is Upon Us

November 3, 2011

I sometimes wonder how long the human race will continue to inhabit the earth.  If you look at the amount of time that humans have walked upright and were, well, human-like, and draw a timeline equivalent to a day, the amount of time that we’ve been “industrialized” (last couple hundred years) would only comprise the […]

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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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