Taking money for granted is easy to do when times are good. After a global pandemic, perhaps we are much more appreciated of money! I considered my paycheck to be “endless money.” Every other week I got paid for a service that I provided a company. Given I saved the majority of it, I began […]
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One thing I plan on doing in retirement is find a potential encore career. Â As a computer and internet junky who has built up a reasonable size blog, a foray into the social media sector seems like a natural extension. Â I want to make sure that I exhaust all options before I really kick back
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Back when I wrote this post on July 6, 2012 I had just negotiated a severance from a finance job I held for 13 years. I took a leap of faith and haven’t looked back. Back then, millions were still unemployed from the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Hence, I wanted to search for empathy for the
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I recently came back from a vacation in Hawaii, and believe it or not, I got a job offer! Â I didn’t mean to get a job offer, but between eating some white puree mangos for breakfast and hitting the waves for some boogie boarding, I decided to reach out to the head of a major
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The following is an April 12, 2012 guest post from Mr. Money Mustache (MMM) about early retirement. As someone who kickstarted the modern-day FIRE movement in July 2009, I let MMM guest post on Financial Samurai to help spread the word. He had recently started his blog to focus on what we now call Lean
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The coronavirus pandemic devastated our economy and caused tens of millions of Americans to become unemployed. A Financial Samurai reader shares what it was like being unemployed during the previous financial crisis. This Is What It’s Like Being Unemployed My name is Rachel, and I was unemployed for just a bit more than 6 months
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The following is a guest post from Steve the Money Infant, which no longer exists. But it is a great post about the real meaning of wealth. Do you think you are wealthy? In fact, what is wealth really? The Free Dictionary defines wealth as follows: Most Common Meaning Of Wealth I think that many
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The Mediterranean is chilly in the Fall, ranging from 48-75 degrees Fahrenheit. Anybody coming from San Francisco will feel right at home. The cruise ship was packed with a couple thousand explorers. Not only that, there were three other ships just as large following a similar itinerary. Pretty good for the tail-end of the season
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This is not an educational post. Instead, this is a post about discovery since I don’t quite understand President Obama’s American Jobs Act. One of the key initiatives of the jobs bill is “extending unemployment benefits further” given how bad the labor market is now. I’m in full support of this ~$450 billion dollar bill,
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Unemployment day sounds like a good idea. Back in 2011, when this post was fist write, we were just coming out of the recession. Today, it is a similar situation post pandemic. With the US unemployment rate at 9.1%, Americans everywhere celebrated employment by taking Monday, 9/5 off. Does anybody else not find it a
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