Mar
26
Value : Recession Resistant
March 26, 2008 | Comments Off
CNN reported today that Nursing is a recession proof job. While it certainly tops my list of recession resistant jobs, there are many others: and they do not necessarily have to do with the degree printed on the diploma. Job resistance, in my opinion, is based on value and how much someone needs that value.
Value [...]
Mar
25
Getting Paid to Learn
March 25, 2008 | Comments Off
I recently started doing tutoring to college students in exchange for money. I do charge considerably less than my standard professional rate. However, the benefits surely go beyond the pay:
Up To Date – The concepts in today’s software engineering courses (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) are the same they where 15 years ago. The technologies [...]
Mar
13
Money Zen
March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
I have friends who tell me that they do not want to be like me. They do not want to worry about money or find a better job. Yet, they complaint that they do not have enough money and that they dislike their jobs but still have to do them to earn their living.
I advice [...]
Mar
10
Dual Income vs. Stay At Home
March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Many people have made articles about the difficult decission families face when both of them work and they have kids. The article Dual Income Families and the Economics of the Stay at Home Parent suggests that for a $40,000 earner, the actual after-tax and after child care expenses take home amount drops to a [...]
Feb
24
My Cash Donations: USO and AMC, Servicepeople and Outdoors
February 24, 2008 | Comments Off
I do not donate too much money in cash. For a long time the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) was the only steady donation. Today I added one to my steady list (at least for the duration of their current engagement), the United Service Organizations (USO).
Reasons for choosing them:
Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) – They do provide [...]
Feb
5
Jobless Recovery : Innovation Food
February 5, 2008 | Comments Off
Some people measure economy in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Some others measure it in unemployment rates and number of jobs created. CNNfn is suggesting that our GDP will recover, but our job market will not (bear in mind our 4.9% unemployment rate is one of the lowest ones in the industrialized world). I think a [...]
Jan
22
How do we get our cheap goods now?
January 22, 2008 | Comments Off
The market slump we saw in the last couple of days is a reflection of a breakdown in one of the most interesting money cycles in history. It seems that American (and other industrialized) consumers have been on a shopping spree for goods produced by emerging economies. Those economies didn’t knew what to [...]
Jan
16
Turning a Recession Into An Opportunity
January 16, 2008 | Comments Off
There is no denying that recessions are not good for anyone. People and companies are cash strapped and are afraid because they do not know when things will get better. Recessions do not give any reasons to celebrate about them.
Recessions, however, provide opportunities. Proactive people pick up themselves from the sad [...]
Dec
13
It is not only about being Smart: Being Smart is Too Easy
December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment
This society seems to value “smart” people. I don’t value being “smart” that much, however.
Smart is something perceived, or observed by others, in my opinion. There are many ways in which it can be perceived, but more often than not it is on instantaneous things and not on long term effects, or execution. Execution, however, [...]
Jul
11
Got Junked
July 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
I have been delaying a good basement/garage cleaning. Some things are just difficult to dump on the regular weekly trash pick-ups: tires, appliances, de-humidifiers and A/Cs, exercise machines, etc. That was the kind of stuff I had accumulated over the years and had neglected to dump. I am putting some things in [...]
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