Free Uber rides are great. Let me show you how to get free Uber rides in this post. For the past several years, I’ve seen Uber grow from a scrappy startup to an enormous success based right here in San Francisco. In the Fall of 2013, the company was “only” valued at $3.5 billion. As […]
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Tenacity and faith are so important for getting ahead. With tenacity and faith, you will feel more emboldened to overcome any obstacle. The optimist will end up richer and happier than the pessimist. This I know for sure. I’m not sure if it’s by coincidence or because I’m spending more time listening, but I’ve noticed
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The following post is from Holly of Club Thrifty on why women earn less than men. Experts use the term “gender wage gap” to describe the ongoing disparity between men and women’s average annual earnings. According to recent government data, women earned just 80.9 percent of what men brought home in 2012. That’s certainly disappointing,
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If you want to make any money, you can’t produce nothing. You’ve got to produce a whole lot of something! Every time I walk into a coffee shop, I see guys fiendishly coding on their laptops. Although the chances are slim to ever make it big as an entrepreneur, thousands of predominantly 20-something year old
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From Debtor To Millionaire is a guest post from J.D. Roth, who founded the blog Get Rich Slowly in 2006 and is the author of Your Money: The Missing Manual. I first met JD in 2010 for lunch up in Portland when I was still working. By that time, J.D. was already a mini-celebrity in
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since I interviewed at Goldman Sachs in NYC. But there’s one incident from my interview time at One New York Plaza that I remember clearly above all others: my GS elevator moment. For those of you who haven’t been following the funny story on Twitter, for years, @GSElevator Gossip
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“Fake it ’til you make it” is a common saying people with little-to-no experience believe in. “Fake it ’til you make it” is a pretty dangerous way of going about things that matter. I remember when Milli Vanilli got busted for lip synching. I was so sad. They made their millions, garnered tremendous fame, and
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Should a credit check be allowed or required by an employer? Perhaps. However, times are so difficult already for millions during a pandemic, legislation might outlaw such a thing. Further, after the economy collapsed in 2008-2010, it’s not uncommon for people to have lost their homes to foreclosure or short-sale. One’s credit score usually gets
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Have you ever had the sinking feeling of falling further behind? Your peers keep charging ahead, but no matter what you do, you can’t keep up. I’ve felt this way before and many are feeling this way no during the pandemic. During my days off from consulting work I tend to schedule other work to
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The following is a guest post by Colleen Kong-Savage, an illustrator and writer who lives in Manhattan. She shares with us the difficulties of finding employment after a divorce and being out of the workforce for almost 10 years to raise her son. Some people are good at making money. Others are not. I am
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