Do Americans have an earnings problem or a savings problem? Unfortunately, I think we’ve got both. Take a look at the median income by age and sex from the latest Census Bureau data. The data always lags for a couple of years. The median income for 20-24-year-olds is $25,116 for women and $27,040 for men. […]
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Here’s some straight up career advice. If you fake it, you probably won’t make it. There’s been a huge trend towards joining startups and fast growing tech companies ever since Wall Street blew up between 2008-2010. The top companies to work for no longer are dominated by the Goldmans, Mckinseys, and Bains of the world.
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Build your brand and eat like a king forever. Ignore your brand and starve like a mendicant waiting for scraps. This post is about how to build a stronger brand for your business, your blog, your podcast, or your career. A brand cannot be developed over night. It must be carefully nurtured. Along the way, your brand
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Are you wondering whether you can collect unemployment insurance if you have passive income? The quick answer is YES. Collecting unemployment insurance (unemployment benefits) is completely separate from how much you make in passive investment income. By definition, passive income is not earned income. It’s income generated by existing investments. The government isn’t going to
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You’ve got your undergraduate degree and now you’re debating if you should go to graduate school. I’ve been in your shoes. I too wondered should I go to grad school? It’s a big commitment. Tuition can get quite expensive, especially if you quit working full-time to go to graduate school. However, earning a graduate degree
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Did you know that you can make a lot more by working overseas and save a significant amount in taxes at the same time? Now that you know, why not work overseas? The US tax system is not the most lenient by any means. American tax payers shell out effectively almost 50% of their incomes to
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How would you feel making 25% less than your peers who do the same work at your same level? I’d be pissed and demand equal pay for equal work. Depending on which study you read, women earn only around 80 cents to the dollar compared to men. Unless you don’t have a mother, sister, daughter
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Since negotiating my own severance in 2012 at the age of 34, I’ve consulted with several dozen individuals about how to best negotiate a severance as well. In addition, thousands of people have read my bestselling ebook, How To Engineer Your Layoff, and negotiated their own severances as well. This article will talk about how
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How To Engineer Your Layoff is my bestselling ebook that will teach you how to negotiate a severance package. For those of you who want to walk away from your job with money in your pocket, my book is for you. By age 34, I was able to confidently leave my job in finance and
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How do you choose between love or career? Both could last a lifetime, but perhaps not simultaneously. Yet some lucky people find and manage both beautifully. Which is more important in the long run? Let’s study an example of one woman’s struggle deciding between love or career. Her name has been changed for privacy. Sacrificing
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