Dec
18
My credit card rate doubled!
Filed Under Bad Business, Business Problems, Lifehacks, Protect Yourself, Rants, Savings | Leave a Comment
I have a washington mutual credit card, with a modest credit line. I admittedly ran into some credit trouble and slow payment times when at college, so I like to keep a bit of a balance on my card, hovering right around 30%. I have savings with ING Direct, making a pretty decent interest rate.
I [...]
Aug
9
Turn Cold-Calling into a Science
Filed Under Development, Full-time Employment, Protect Yourself, Self-Employment, Side Projects | 1 Comment
I was poking around the internet and found the website FreelanceSwitch.com. The site is really interesting, and discusses different ways of being able to switch from the full-time gig to making your own money by freelancing your services. I urge you to check out the site.
The specific article I was looking at was speaking about [...]
Aug
8
So I found myself not being able to log in to a site that i had saved in my firefox browser. I simply hadn’t entered it in so long, I totally forgot what the password was. I had a good idea, but i couldn’t screw up 5 times or else my account was locked out. [...]
Aug
6
Put your finances on autopilot
Filed Under Full-time Employment, Lifehacks, Protect Yourself, Savings | Leave a Comment
How do you pay bills? Do you have one bank account that pays every bill that you have? How do you budget? Do you just pay your bills out of that account and then gauge how much you have afterward? That’s how i used to do it, too, but it didn’t work for me very [...]
Aug
5
Comments on “Layoff Rumors - a Wall Street Journal Article”
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The wall street journal had a fantastic article today, August 5, 2008 on what to do when you hear Layoff Rumors circulating around your office, written by Joann S. Lublin. If you have been reading posts, you know that I started my career in the same company that I’m in now, around 4 years ago. [...]