When you’re interviewing for a job, first impressions are everything. To start, wearing the appropriate interview attire is key. Over at “Laid Off And Looking”, one of the bloggers posts about the “Perils of Interview Attire.” He received positive feedback about his skills, but a middle manager told him after his second round that he […]
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The following is a guest post from John, a regular reader of Financial Samurai, on how to earn a six figure income right out of college. My first interaction with Sam was a comment I made on what would become one of Financial Samurai’s most popular posts of all time: The Average Net Worth For The Above Average
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Hear that? That is the sound of another self-righteous employed person complaining about the unemployed sucking up resources and driving the government deficit further into the red. Who cares employed people?? You guys aren’t the ones who are struggling to find a job in this economy! Several Truths About Being Unemployed 1) Few can live a
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Today, driving for Uber sucks. The pay is too low and the customers are not great. With the global pandemic, business is down a lot. This post highlights what it was like driving for Uber back in 2015-2016, when it was all the side-hustle range. I never planned to drive for Uber. It just happened.
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The more productive you are, generally, the richer and happier you will be. Let’s discuss how we can all improve productivity quite easily with an extra seven hours a week. I’ve been a little more active on Twitter recently and I noticed something quite interesting. Starting at around 10pm PST, the chatter goes silent. I tend
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The rich tend to always get ahead, no matter the economic environment. Even during a global pandemic, the rich have gotten richer. This article will discuss why the rich should pay higher rents. No matter how hard I try, it’s impossible to convince everybody to adopt the Stealth Wealth mantra. Rich people should never share how
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There’s a lot of wealth to be made in this world. And yet there’s so much truth to the saying you’ll never get rich working for someone else. You might think that sounds crazy. But, when you look at the super rich, you’ll realize the majority of them were able to get rich by hiring
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If you go close to the edge, you’ll realize what’s possible. In my quest to make my life worse, to ultimately make life more enjoyable, I’ve continued to look for full-time work to test my resolve. Every time I step into an interview room, I change my mindset from a guy with financial freedom, to a
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Grades obviously do matter. However, here’s a post arguing the other side, that grades don’t matter. I assure you grades do matter if you want to get a job at Goldman Sachs and eventually make $400,000 a year working 90+ hours a week! For all those who didn’t perform well in college, don’t want to
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Over a two-year period, I gave over 500 rides driving for Uber. It was an eye-opening experience that helped me also build up my Solo 401(k) balance. Let me share why I’m no longer willing to drive for Uber. In part one of this two part series, we discussed seven reasons why everybody should work a
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