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A Change of Job – A Change of Paychecks

Any time you move from one job to another, you can expect a little blip in the flow of your paychecks. Even if you end one job on Friday and start the new one on Monday, you’ve created a glitch in the time/space continuum, and you’ll find that your last paycheck from the old job will be a little smaller, while the check from the new job won’t come in for a little bit. This does cause problems. Theoretically, you changed jobs to move to a better place in your career financially, and this lag between the two checks can … Continue reading →

The Downsides to Writing for a Company Blog, Part Two

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If you missed Part One, check it out here. We discussed having to produce a set amount of blogs each month/week/day, having a set topic you have to write on, and the fact that you can’t blog for companies like PayPerPost or ReviewMe while blogging for a company. There are more downsides – read on: *Each blog has to have at least X amount of words in it. They can usually be longer than the requirement, but they can never be shorter. If you watched a YouTube video and thought it was good enough to want to share on the … Continue reading →

You Might Lose Your Health Insurance After All

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It seems as though there is some debate as to whether or not people really will lose their employer sponsored health insurance in 2014. It isn’t easy to predict exactly how employers will respond to the health care regulations that will begin in a few years time. A study done by McKinsey finds that many employers will drop their employee health insurance after the exchanges exist in 2014. A study done by McKinsey was based on a survey that was done that included more than 1,300 employers. The size of the businesses varied. Overall, the results showed that 30% of … Continue reading →

How To Save While Living Paycheck to Paycheck

In our current economy, more and more Americans are finding themselves in a situation where they are living from paycheck to paycheck. Living from paycheck to paycheck is very stressful, and even a small unexpected expense can leave you wondering whether you will be able to pay all of the bills this month. I heard that it was possible to save money while living from paycheck to paycheck, so I decided to take a closer look to figure out how it’s done. Since there is little room for error in calculating your monthly budget when you live paycheck to paycheck, … Continue reading →

For the Good of the Family

Over the last month, I’ve chronicled my husband’s adventures in employment land. We discussed whether he should take the job, the tradeoffs associated with it, how we would prepare for the glitch in paychecks as we moved from one job to the next. We made the transition from one job to the next, and then our adventures continued as last Friday his new job decided it wasn’t working out and decided to let him go. This was tough. He’d had a lot of hopes for the new position, but the requirements hadn’t been clearly spelled out and there was frustration … Continue reading →

Shopping – Love It Or Loathe It?

A few weeks ago, I went out shopping for the day with my mom and my son. While I enjoyed spending the time with both of them, throughout the day I kept thinking about all of the things that I would rather be doing with them other than shopping. Things like spending time out in the yard, going for a walk, or even playing indoors. Anything but shopping. How could this be? When did I come to dislike shopping so much? I am not sure that there was any one defining event; it was more like a gradual shift of … Continue reading →