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When times are tough, many people express gratitude just to have a job. However, when you have time to think about your job, and when times are a little less tense, you have a little more leeway in terms of your ability to do the job you want. And, as a result, you can decide what…
This is the third and final instalment of our Thursday bubble series. The first part looked at Canadian housing, while the second looked at gold. This one is a little more, shall we say, contrarian in nature. These days, I don’t know anyone who will discourage a young person from going to college. (Except me….
Like everyone reading, I’ve had a few jobs in my life. When I was a wee teenager, I worked at the local Dairy Queen, where I attempted to eat my weight in Blizzards on a weekly basis. From there I went to work at a supermarket, followed that up with a brief (unsuccessful) forage into…
There’s a lot to be said about frugality. The more you can do with the money you have, the richer you will feel. A lot of frugality is easy to do, feels rewarding, and gives you great benefits. But frugality can only take you so far. Eventually, there is just not enough hard cash to…
I should probably admit, right from the get go, I have a certain amount of bias when it comes to writing this post. I don’t have any tattoos or piercings, don’t want any, and can’t see the desire to ever do so. I think that, with only a few exceptions, that both generally look pretty…
One of my favourite games when I was a kid was Stock Ticker. It was a board game based loosely around the stock market, where you pick what shares you think will go up, pay your “money” for them, and then watch the stock market rise and fall with the roll of the dice. Each…
Ever since we moved to our new home, I’ve been doing some job hunting. The reason that I am looking for a new job is that I want something that pays a little better, and is in a field that I can grow into over the next few years. I’m sick of dead end jobs….
