After spending years writing a 200+-page bestselling book on how to profitably quit your job with a severance, you’d think I’d have executed everything to perfection. However, let me share some mistakes I made when quitting my job so you don’t do the same. By the time I returned all grizzled and gray, I’d have […]
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I’d like to share with you the best financial move I ever made to help me get to financial independence at 34 in 2012. I started Financial Samurai in 2009 and started writing about achieving FIRE (financial independence retire early) on a regularly basis. Today, the FIRE movement has grown to be a worldwide phenomena
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If you’re thinking about leaving your job, this post is for you. This is a guest post by NZ Muse, a mid-20s writer who just completed a six-month trip around the world and lived to tell the tale. I took NZ Muse and her husband out for lunch in San Francisco when they stopped by. A
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Congratulations for receiving or negotiating a severance package or financial windfall! Severances are not mandatory in many countries, therefore anything you get beyond $0 is a bonus. Hopefully you’ve used the strategies I’ve outlined in my book to get the best severance package possible. It’s not just the financial windfall that’s so great, it’s the
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Wondering why you didn’t get the job? There’s an overwhelming demand for every job position today. Whether it’s as a barista at Starbucks or a marketing director at a tech company, competition is fierce. Landing a job these days can feel like winning the lottery. In this post, I spoke with some Human Resources (HR)
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Recently, I discovered that finding work is expensive. Fortunately there are tax-deductible job hunting expenses that make it less painful. Thanks to 33% of you voting that I should go back to work full-time, I decided to rev up the rusty job search engine after 3.5 years of inactivity. And boy, what a waste of time
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There’s nothing more maddening for a manager than getting a last minute e-mail from a subordinate “calling” in sick on a Friday. At least have the balls to call in and fake a pathetic sick voice! Sending in an e-mail last minute to say you are sick after partying it up all night is like
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Look around you. Chances are HIGH all your bosses look the same, talk the same, and act the same. If you so happen not to look like your boss, then you might be limited in your upward mobility. We all know people tend to favor those who are more similar to themselves. My dentist is a
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There’s an idyllic notion about startup riches that once you’ve sold your company for multi-millions of dollars you’re filthy rich and never have to work again. I admittedly have this automatic mindset whenever I meet someone who said they sold their company to one of the tech giants. Even if they are still living in
A while back, Twitter laid off a bunch of employee and offered a severance package. This post reviews whether Twitter’s severance package was any good. It will help you determine whether your severance package or future severance package offer in the tech space are any good. The return of Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO led
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