My Start Came with Temp Work
It’s been weeks since I graduated from college and I still don’t have a job. We’re deep into June 2016
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Career Case Study: My Job Trajectory Through College and Onwards
“Duh, Darcy, anyone can do it with your family connections.” Uh… wrong. My parents run machinery in rural Fearsville. It’s
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Where Did My Money Come From?!
“Okay, Darcy, we see the line in the sand. You have great ideals and all, but why should anyone listen
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What Makes a Good Job a Good Job? More than Salary, For Sure
Everyone wants a good job, just like everyone wants to be rich. To get a good job, you need to
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You Want to be Thrifty, NOT Cheap
In high school, my freshman English teacher had some choice words about being thrifty vs being cheap. She said “cheap”
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What Helped and Didn’t Help Me Reach $100k at 25
Obviously, this is a massively unusual accomplishment, especially for someone that did NOT grow up rich or otherwise lucked into
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Share the Wealth
Like much of America’s youth, I didn’t start off rich – no trust funds for me and my ilk. Sure,
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You CAN Buy Lattes, But Only If You’re Mindful About It… with Budgets!
How many of you have heard of the latte factor? It’s a well-known idea in personal finance that puts something
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My 2017, 2018, and 2019 Spending or: How I Learned to Love the Tax
Man, what a loaded title. You’d think I’d have a better one, since I’ve made marketing my whole career. Yet
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Tax Deductions, My Salary, and Pulling My Pants Down for the World to See
We’ve discussed how talking finance is even more intimate than sex. Now that I’m going to publish my salary and
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