After I was finished with grad school, I had a job lined up and was feeling pretty good. I moved into the city where my new job would be and was then informed that because of the downturn (this was in spring 09) that the project I was slated to be working on was being […]
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About the Author: Joel Ohman is a serial entrepreneur and a Yakezie member/sponsor. You may know him from some of his posts over on Credit Card Chaser (check out the new one on the 20 most expensive credit card receipts ever for a good laugh) or you may know him as the owner of the […]
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Kevin and Sam recently wrote great pieces about the taboos around money and revealing how much you make. They opened up a good discussion on why salaries are generally kept quiet and not revealed in daily conversation. But what about how much you spent on a car? For many people a car is seen as […]
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Someone once said, “If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.” I couldn’t agree more because it takes hard work to get things done. If everybody knew nothing was impossible, there would be a lot more people working arduously towards their goals. I’d like to think that the Yakezie Network has proved positive collaboration leads to incredible […]
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I quit my job recently. It was done after a year-long agonizing decision period in which I went back and forth about whether to leave. When I announced that I quit on my blog, there was an outpouring of support and a few calls for full-time blogging. I’d love to blog full time, but there’s […]
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There are a million and one reasons to love the Yakezie, but one of the things that brings me back time and again is the vast amount of resources available on just about anything to do with Money Beagle. Whether it be something to do with the blog itself, a topic I want to write […]
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As much as we wish nothing would ever break or get screwed up, life just doesn’t work that way. Products aren’t made to last forever, people don’t show up when they said they would, and all kinds of things go wrong with service providers all the time. A glitch in the cable box messed up […]
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One reason why people start hating their jobs is because they’ve been passed over for some less-than-deserving mortal. Others start resenting their jobs because they didn’t get the raise they were expecting, despite the new hire making 20% more! Bitterness pervades, and things go downhill quickly if the situation is not addressed. So what happens […]
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