Career

Please, DON’T Buy Company Stock in Your 401(k)

May 22, 2012

A news item caught my eye today.  Yet again, employees are suing their own company (JP Morgan) for allowing them to buy company stock in their 401(k) plan while allegedly hiding known financial risks.  This lawsuit is just plain silly, a by-product of the litigious nation we live in.  Aside from the fact that their […]

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My Electrician Makes More Than a Doctor

May 20, 2012

Boy, that’s the fastest $2800 I ever spent!  Ever since my wife and I decided we weren’t moving last year, we took inventory of all the stuff we wanted to do to the house to make it worth staying (I’m still convinced in the end if I drop another $50K into this house over the […]

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Overweight Fitness Gurus, Broke Financial Advisors – Hypocrites or It Doesn’t Matter?

April 23, 2012

Does it matter if the professional you’re paying talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk?  Sometimes when I’m at my gym, I take a look at the clients taking private lessons with a fitness trainer who would probably be classified as obese based on commonly accepted criteria.  On one hand, I sometimes wonder if […]

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Job Description Shenanigans: Dream Job or Cubicle Cave Dweller?

March 4, 2012

Everyone has experienced a real job salesman.  Whether it’s a recruiter, a friend, or a manager at a particular company, someone packages up a job to make it something it’s really not. In my short life I’ve already had quite a few of these, ranging from total scheme to decent wage-earner job status.  High school […]

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6 Reasons Learning a Foreign Language Is Completely Useless

February 22, 2012

When I was in middle school, I had the choice of learning French, Spanish or Latin. I didn’t have a particular interest in learning a foreign language, and had never left the country or had any international exposure to speak of. In my rather naive and simple estimation of my options, I understood that the […]

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Check Out This Brilliantly Simple Way to Cut HOURS Out of Your Workday

February 7, 2012

OK, so after reading The 4-Hour Workweek (incredibly transformative book by the way) and various other career and productivity blogs, I thought I’d heard all the various ways people shave time in their day.  Some of the tactics I’ve read about range from checking your email only once per day (not feasible for many of […]

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