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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It’ll be two years this spring since I last worked in an office. There’s been some good times with 23 weeks worth of travel and some down times with periods of boredom. But if boredom is the worst of it, then time away from work isn’t so bad. I was able to write a book, spend
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There is a void in early retirement you might experience. This void in early retirement needs to be filled if you want to feel happy and productive. Over the past one and a half years since leaving Corporate America in 2012, I’ve done some deep thinking about early retirement through posts such as: When you’re
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There’s an old saying that one should, “Make hay when the sun is shining.” Do you work harder or relax more during good times? When I was in my 20s I had two modes of work ethic. 1) Work hard and 2) Work harder. I’d wake up around 4:30am every morning in NYC from 1999-2001
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Company off-sites are important to boost business and morale. Ever year, Financial Samurai goes on a company off-site to plan fo the following year. The sun now sets at 5pm and it only gets to a high of ~64 degrees nowadays in San Francisco. Despite the cold, winter is one of the best seasons in
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