Career

Stay at home or to work : What is the financial & professional price?

Some of our friends are pregnant or have just had a baby. So the conversation of staying at home or going back to work after maternity leave comes up fairly often. When I expressed my interest to stay at home for a couple of years after we start our own family to one of the [...]

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Knowledge is power and its free too!

A compilation of best free online courses, classes, lectures, podcasts and more Knowledge is power, but we need not spend much to get knowledge. There are lot of universities and websites that make their courses/lectures available for everyone to use for free. These top ranked universities and websites bring together amazing professors, thought provoking topics, tons [...]

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Big rewards, lousy performance : When motivation fails

One of the frustrations of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are the big bonuses the CEOs of the banks got, after getting bail out money. And the reason often cited by the companies is that bonuses are necessary to retain talent. But the extraordinary talent, retained by millions of dollars have failed to bring in [...]

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How much does it cost to raise a child?

I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man – Socrates   The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently came out with its latest figures on the cost of raising a child. The title should have read “How to scare the heck [...]

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Free consumer reports – Credit , Banking, Insurance, Employment & More

There are many agencies that collect data on us these days. Starting from a simple checking account to a huge mortgage, employment, getting any type of insurance, everyone wants to verify and check our background.  Everything we do is recorded and analyzed. All the pricing options seem to be based on these reports.  Have you [...]

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Are you looking for a career change? Start at your local community college.

Are you interested in trying out a new field but are not in a position financially to quit your job and go back to college? Do you want to become more proficient at your hobbies? Want to learn yoga, Pilates or swimming? You can do all of these without breaking your bank or rearranging your [...]

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