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  • Do you use your job to justify your spending?

    Posted on January 28, 2016 | No Comments
    Tweet I remember when I first started working I thought: OMG! I need all of these new clothes 😀 😀 😀 So I went shopping. I picked up way more of what I wanted in the items I didn’t need. Suits? Why did I buy […]

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  • How attractive you are, plays a factor in your career

    Posted on November 14, 2014 | 2 Comments
    Tweet Study from Blogs: Good looks will get you that job, promotion and raise The study conducted by Jeremy Biesanz, Lauren Human and Genevieve Lorenzo, showed a positive bias toward attractive people. “If people think Jane is beautiful, and she is very organized and somewhat […]

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  • The Most Profitable Small Businesses To Start

    Posted on October 17, 2014 | 1 Comment
    Tweet A lot of people ask this question, so Thomas Stanley (PF researcher of millionaires extraordinaire) listed out the stats for where you can make the most money as a self-employed, small business owner: management services on a contract basis, .55 <— My job engineering […]

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  • What is your college education worth?

    Posted on October 10, 2014 | No Comments
    Tweet Georgetown did a study and came up with this: A college degree in general boosts your lifetime earnings by 84%. A closer look at 171 majors shows that there can be a difference of about 300% between the highest-paying majors and the lowest-paying ones. […]

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  • Got a brand new shiny job? Watch out for these pitfalls.

    Posted on June 20, 2014 | No Comments
    Tweet Congratulations! You have a shiny new job and you’re going from making $10/hour (minimum wage in Ontario) to $40,000 a year! WOW! $40,000!!!!!! That is DOUBLE what you were making before. ($10/hour x 2000 hours a year = $20,000) But wait. Does this mean […]

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