Leaving a 9-5 to Work for Yourself? Drop the Employee Mindset
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by Elizabeth Dawber
3y ago
You’ve done it — you got out of the rat race. No more 9 to 5, long commutes, making small talk with colleagues you don’t like. Breath a sigh of relief that pointless meetings, queuing for the photocopier, and cranked up air-con are a thing of the past. You’ve been dreaming about working for yourself for years; the freedom, fortune, and flexibility to be who you want to be. That side hustle has now become your main hustle, and you’re now the big boss, a bloody amazing boss at that (if you do say so yourself). If only you’d done it sooner. But when you take off the rose-tinted glasses, the true ..read more
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Financial Success Isn’t About Income, It’s About Planning
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by Anthony Carlton
3y ago
After more than eight years of working in every corner of FinanceI’ve come to realize that personal financial success is *not* about choosing the best stocks or having a high income. Financial success is about careful planning, and avoiding mistakes, the BIG ones, that can blow everything up. Here are the most common ones I see as a financial planner. Not Having an Emergency Fund At some point, sh*t will hit the fan. A random medical expense. Taking fluffy to the vet. Replacing some ungodly expensive piece of your home, like the damn furnace. You never know what your next emergency w ..read more
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Forget Cover Letters, Build Professional Relationships Instead
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by Stephen Moore
3y ago
You know what’s more important than cover letters? Building professional relationships. Another hard truth: As an employer, I never read cover letters. There, I said it. I know this is earth-shattering to some people, and I can fully understand why. If I spent hours writing a ‘perfect’ cover letter to accompany every application I submitted only to find out that no one ever read it, I would be outraged, too. Why don’t I read them? There are so many reasons. But, honestly, they all sound like excuses so I’m not going to waste your time listing them out. The bottom line is that your cover l ..read more
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Don’t Compare Your Career Journey to Others
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by Jon Hawkins
3y ago
We are obsessed with comparing our career journeys, especially with those who are successful at a young age. The Beatles were 16 when they wrote their first song. Mark Zuckerberg started “The Facebook” at just 19 years old. Now the same age, Billie Eilish has 50.2 million monthly Spotify listeners. Here I am. At 22, I’ve graduated from University, and I’m now a freelance writer who runs a Philosophy publication with 200,000 monthly readers. My greatest achievements are hardly worth mentioning compared to the history-defining accomplishments of people much younger ..read more
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What You Need to Know About Working in The Corporate World
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by Jason Gutierrez
3y ago
I was sitting in a conference room with clear, glass walls overlooking the corporate campus where I worked during a rare but beautifully sunny day in Pittsburgh. Leaning back in my chair, arms crossed, I listened to my 50-something-year-old coworker — a project manager — explain to our boss that he didn’t know how to look up documents in the company’s record management system. After the meeting ended, I was instructed to show him how to do it — a 21-year-old engineering intern training a 30-year veteran on a fundamental aspect of his job. I looked over at a coworker and facepalmed. He laughed ..read more
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How to Change Your Bad Money Mindset
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by Monica Galvan
3y ago
Money. It’s not a subject we learn about in school or talk much about while growing up. It’s no wonder most adults have no idea how to invest or use their money wisely. From bad habits, lack of knowledge, or just plain playing it safe, I’ve made many mistakes over the years that have robbed me of tens of thousands of dollars, and left me with a bad money mindset that I needed to change. I remember that line on my first full-time employment application that asked, what are your salary expectations? I didn’t put any thought into the number I wrote. At the time, still recovering from th ..read more
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How to Save $50000 in Your 20s (And How to Invest It)
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by Devin Arrigo
3y ago
Since graduating from college in June 2018, I’ve managed to save and invest more than $50000 while working a 9-to-5 job with a modest salary. I’m certainly not going to be listed in Forbes as World’s Wealthiest anytime soon. However, according to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, the median net worth of individuals less than age 35 is $14,000. When I graduated from college, I suddenly found myself with more money than I knew what to do with. Just months earlier, I was scraping together a few bucks to buy a beer at the bar. Now I was setting up health insurance ..read more
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How to Stand Out in a Job Interview
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by Jon Hawkins
3y ago
The job market is more competitive than ever before. I know, because almost every job I apply for is flagged with over 100 applications on Indeed. And with that many applications, there are bound to be multiple applicants that meet the threshold of required credentials for the job. To stand out, having an impressive resume isn’t enough, nor is having your job interview go perfectly. You need something that will set you apart from the other top 5% of applicants who look the same as you on paper. As a 22-year old who graduated from University in 2020, navigating the job market has been ..read more
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Debunking Popular Opinions About Forgiving Student Loans
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by Marcus Dean
3y ago
Now that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have taken office, speculations are swirling about new bills that might be passed. One idea that caught my attention — and the attention of many others — is forgiving the national student loan debt. Interest on our loans has been put on hold for almost a year now, and it looks set to continue that way in the interim future. Forgiving student loan debt completely would remove many struggling Americans from low-income situations. It would give college graduates a fresh start that isn’t weighed down by thousands of dollars of debt. Lik ..read more
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How to Grow Your Career as a Complete Beginner
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by Anthony Yeung
3y ago
In this article, I’ll share the exact strategies that helped me grow my career faster than others in several different industries. The best bit? I had absolutely no experience. Many of them go against common career advice. But, if you’re ready to try them, these tips will help you reach the top in record time. 1. Study people who are “street smart,” not “book smart” There’s a huge difference between learning from a “book smart” business professor who’s never started a successful company versus learning from a “street smart” serial entrepreneur who founded numerous 8-and-9-figur ..read more
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