You only lose your virginity once, and here’s the story of my first-time investing,.. in all the glory and horror.

Jobs Suck. Period.
Working for someone else always has it’s downside. Especially when you’re doing something you hate or working for someone you don’t respect. But there are times when it’s just time to pull the escape lever and bail.
You’ll know when that time is, but have you considered when NOT to bail??
You Have Dependents
If you [...]

inspired by GenerationX Finance: I Can’t Pay My Bills! What Bills Should I Pay First?
There seems to be a minor flurry of posts about “Which Bills to Pay First”. I don’t know how many of the people posting these comments have gone through an extended period of unemployment, but during the post-2000 downturn for IT [...]

I came from a middle (maybe lower-middle) class family, and my parents were always scraping to get by. They never talked about 401k, 529 plans, HSA Accounts, or any of the other financial ‘buzz words’ you hear in financial articles nowadays. Finances weren’t something we talked about a lot. They were treated somewhat like taboo [...]

Another piece of information I found very useful is from David Allen of ‘Automatic Millionaire’ fame. Setting up everything so that you don’t forget to pay anything. Realize, that I used to have a whole fistful of credit cards (in excess of 40 accounts at one time) with various balances across all of them. It [...]