Career & Employment

Should A Credit Check Be Allowed Or Required By An Employer?

Should a credit check be allowed or required by an employer? Perhaps. However, times are so difficult already for millions during a pandemic, legislation might outlaw such a thing. Further, after the economy collapsed in 2008-2010, it’s not uncommon for people to have lost their homes to foreclosure or short-sale. One’s credit score usually gets […]

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Learning To Do The Hustle: One Freelancer’s Search For Meaningful Work

The following is a guest post by Colleen Kong-Savage, an illustrator and writer who lives in Manhattan. She shares with us the difficulties of finding employment after a divorce and being out of the workforce for almost 10 years to raise her son.  Some people are good at making money. Others are not. I am

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Filling The Void In Early Retirement With Part-Time Work

There is a void in early retirement you might experience. This void in early retirement needs to be filled if you want to feel happy and productive. Over the past one and a half years since leaving Corporate America in 2012, I’ve done some deep thinking about early retirement through posts such as: When you’re

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Making The Most Of Company Off-Sites: More Productivity, Less Boondoggling!

Company off-sites are important to boost business and morale. Ever year, Financial Samurai goes on a company off-site to plan fo the following year. The sun now sets at 5pm and it only gets to a high of ~64 degrees nowadays in San Francisco. Despite the cold, winter is one of the best seasons in

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The TOPMOM Program: Single Mothers Can Make The Best Employees

The following is a guest post by freelance illustrator, designer, and writer Colleen Kong-Savage. There’s nobody more adept at getting things done like a single mother and I’m very pleased to read her point of view. American society doesn’t think very highly of mothers. Only five nations in the whole big fat world do not

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Why Do We Discredit Other People’s Achievements?

Why do we discredit other people’s achievements? Instead, we should try to be nicer to people, especially after a global pandemic. People discrediting other’s achievements is so annoying that I’ve got to discuss this strange phenomenon. There are two main ways of getting ahead. The first way is to do everything you can to improve

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