How to Get a Job when you have no Experience (or are Unemployed)
I alluded to this in my story, but it’s something I think every upcoming or recent college graduate can benefit…
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Can you Deduct Job Search Expenses?
Before I started tactically itemizing taxes, I had no clue that you could deduct job search expenses on your tax…
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Choosing Part-Time
The last two jobs my wife has been offered (and accepted) were both part-time jobs. The first, as a landscape…
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Are You and Your Employer Paying Too Much for Health Insurance? Here’s How to Find Out
Want to know what your employer is paying for your health insurance and find out if they (and consequently you)…
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What if you Could Take a Do-Over on your Career?
Do you ever wonder “what if” when it comes to your career choices and how fate has played out? Looking…
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Have Company Stock? Your Allocation to it Could be Too High
I’m fortunate to work for an employer that offers stock units to its employees. The number of units you could…
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New Federal “Pay As You Earn” Student Loan Repayment Plan Now Available
Towards the end of December, a new federal Pay As You Earn repayment plan for student loans became available. If…
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Marissa Mayer Ending Telecommuting at Yahoo? No Big Deal. Your Work-Life Balance? Big Deal
Marissa Mayer earned a lot of attention last week with her declaration to Yahoo employees that they would no longer…
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Emergency Savings: is 6 Months Still Enough?
I was perusing unemployment duration data on the BLS website recently (yes, this is what personal finance bloggers do) and…
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Moving Into a Career in Nursing: my Wife’s Career Change Story
In a previous post on education tax credits, I noted that my wife was going back to school for an…
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