Income

How Do You Feel About a 40-Hour Week?

An interesting article at the Wall Street Journal confirms what we’ve known to be the case all along—40 hours for professional employees is perceived in many industries to be a part-time week.

Pros and Cons of Long-Term Employment

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Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the first day I worked for my current employer. I evaluate some of the pros and cons of staying with the same company for a long period of time rather than looking around from time to time for new employment.

6 Strategies to Stop Wasting Your Raises

Getting a raise might seem like a long shot, but when you get it–you have some decisions to make. These are 6 tried-and-true strategies that have worked for me.

Can We Boil Down Personal Finance to Simple Ratios?

That’s the premise of a new book by Charles Farrell, “Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life.” The book lives up to its title—people at any stage of life can pick this up and figure out exactly how they relate to where they should be, according to Farrell. [...]

Can You Name 5 Ways You Make Money?

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Five is not a magic number of secret threshold, but it does represent a good degree of income diversity. What’s the ultimate goal with this approach? Find out.

5 Components of a Good Layoff Contingency Plan

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Five things to include in a layoff contingency plan, including an emergency budget, income replacement, and a long-term plan. Write yours today!

Should Millionaires Apply for Unemployment?

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3,000 millionaires claimed unemployment benefits in 2008. They have a right to do so, but is it the RIGHT thing to do when millions of others are struggling?

What if Your Money Disappeared Tomorrow?

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At any one time, I’m following 2 or 3 television shows. Three hours of weekly TV is plenty, so I try to stick to that limit. Right now, I happen to be watching Top Chef: Just Desserts (just finished with Top Chef: DC), the latest season of Flashpoint, and Discovery’s The Colony. A “Controlled Experiment” [...]

Can You Make a Living Recycling 10 Cent Bottles and Cans?

Michael from the Dough Roller explores an idea that was taken on by the popular TV show, Seinfeld. Can you actually make enough money to live by collecting and returning cans?

Get a Second Job and Quit Whining About Debt

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Guest post from Jeff at Deliver Away Debt. Jeff discusses getting a second job as a debt repayment strategy. What do you think?

Really Pay Yourself First: Doing a 180 on Savings

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We’re going to try a little experiment for the next six months with our savings. Read about how what we’re doing is very different from the “traditional” approach.

There’s No Such Thing as Passive Income

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A guest post from Mr. Credit Card, who tackles a difficult question–is there really such as thing as true passive income? Share your thoughts.

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