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Have you been looking for a job and had with little, or no success? Don’t fret. I’ve selected, and shared, approximately 150 easy ways to make money – try them because the image above is a picture of the future of employment. Why do you need to try ways to…
When was the last time you saw your income grow? My income didn’t grow for years. I even believed I’d reached my earning peak and that was that. I believed this until we found ourselves in a lot of debt. Then I realised three important things: You can get…
Editor’s note: I published a version of this article first on JeanChatzky.com several months back. Today I’m giving you, my reader, the updated version of the article. How did you do it? This is what people ask me when hear that we paid off £100,000 (and the interest) consumer…
You are not going to believe how long this post has taken me to figure out, write and have the courage to publish. Why you may ask? Because this one is very different from the two posts about making money I published previously. In the first one I shared fifteen…
I am sitting here in a building of what is probably the largest bureaucracy in the world; yep, I am in Brussels for the week helping the European Commission make decisions about allocating serious research money. Naturally, this is a meeting ground for colleagues from different countries and with different…
Over the last couple of years, I have been working on moving away from being ‘a distinguished professor’ towards becoming ‘an awesome blogger’ figuring helpful blogging tips on the way. Today, I’m breaking one of the core rules on The Money Principle – don’t go with the crowd –…
Would you take financial advice from a rapper? Probably not. Most people would rather talk to a personal finance advisor. Cool; if that’s is your swagger. Still, there is much to be said about learning and variety. And there is a lot to be learned about making money, business and…
There has been a shift in what it takes to earn a living. The competition for stable and secure jobs directs masses of applicants from all walks of life. Yet as jobs change and disappear before our eyes we change in order to further our own prospects. Now there are…
Lately, business has been on my mind a lot. Coming up with ideas for businesses is what I’ve been puzzling over before I go to sleep, while driving and while sliding fast downhill on bad, slushy snow. Why, you may ask, a university professor is so preoccupied with the…
I need to make some lifestyle changes. I’ve come to the point whereby I’ve set myself a number of challenges to slowly alter how I go about spending money and improving my health. It’s nothing too dramatic. I see it more as chomping at bite size chunks to achieve overall…
Editor’s note: This post by Little House from Little House in the Valley is part of the Yakezie blog-swap. You can read my post on Little House in the Valley. By 14, I’d become the neighborhood babysitter, making $5 an hour I’d watch up to three children per household. My…
Many people want to retire so they don’t have to work; there are even more people who want to retire early so that they can be at home and do whatever they want. Some are even living the dream and blogging about it. Me? I don’t want to retire,…