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Increase In Salary From a Graduate Degree
21 February 2007SmartMoney has an article that I think is very helpful for people considering whether or not to go to graduate school - it shows the annual difference in earnings in several common degree programs for those without a graduate degree and those with one. The ones that make the most (law and medicine) are those [...]
Living On An Income Under The Poverty Line
8 February 2007There’s a good article on MSN written by a woman who, at 48, has decided to go back to college. The result is a huge blow to her income: down to $12,000 a year. This is the point where a lot of people start telling you that it’s impossible to live on that little money. [...]
Akismet For Wordpress Comment Spam
22 January 2007For anyone out there using a Wordpress blog, I thought I’d give a short plug for Akismet, a comment spam modification you can download that automatically moves comments it deems to be spam over automatically into a “spam” moderation queue, so that you can delete them all automatically. I’ve been mostly off the Internet in [...]
Black Friday - Getting The Best Shopping Deals
14 November 2006For those of you who enjoy getting a jump on the Christmas shopping season, you may have heard of “Black Friday” - the day after Thanksgiving, and the first day of the Christmas shopping season. It’s also a day where stores offer huge discounts on a few items to draw customers in - and often [...]
Should You Save To Pay For Your Kid’s College Expenses?
10 November 2006It’s a pretty standard accepted practice for parents to sock away money to pay for their children’s college expenses. But Suze Orman raises a good point in a mostly unrelated article:
Instead, a good financial advisor will assess whether you should be saving for college at all. If you aren’t already maxing out on all your [...]
Want To Be Smarter? Take Up Multiple Hobbies
1 November 2006Via Consumerism Commentary comes this article on why a diverse set of interests can increase your performance in all your activities by stimulating brain growth. How can that be possible? Because when you learn new skills, different parts of your brain are forced to develop in response, even into adulthood. Speaking Spanish and managing your [...]
The Worst Halloween Costumes
31 October 2006Getting ready to go out tonight? Better run your costume through this list of the worst halloween costumes for this year. I think they forgot to consider these costumes, however.
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Book Review: Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything
23 October 2006I’ve referred to a blog that has some random, interesting posts in the past called Freakonomics, which has posts on everything from how fishing correlates to unemployment to the effect of the feminist movement on the quality of the teaching pool. It’s mostly just ecclectic observations about society from an economic perspective - which is [...]
Resume No-No - Video Resume
21 October 2006This video resume has been kicking around the Internet of a guy who applied to investment banks using a video resume. It’s basically him lecturing about personal development with some scenes of him lifting weights (well, weights being lifted by him along with his personal trainers), dancing, and talking about how you should kick unsuccessful [...]
Online Games at The Other Extreme…
18 October 2006I just ran across this explanation of why he quit playing by a person who dedicated his life to the game mentioned earlier, World of Warcraft. If you’re wondering what it looks like when someone takes online games to an extreme, this is it.
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