Fearless Money

In the last couple years, I’ve slowly come to an interesting realization about work, and certain types of people at work.

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A couple weeks ago, my rollover transfer from my last employer’s 401K to a dedicated IRA finally completed.

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Why am I working at my job? What am I getting out of it? Asking myself these questions and coming to a firm conclusion has made a night and day turnaround in my attitude.
The Turning Point
On Monday this week (being late to work), I was picking up a bunk-bed for my girls. […]

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My [tag]Amazon[/tag] book selling money has really tapered off now, so I’m moving on to eBay.Now I’m going to unburden my self of my robotics hobby, as well as ridding myself of any computer equipment that I’m not using now.

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My Amazon money flood is finally slowing a bit. I’m only shipping one or two books a day now, and every so often I have a day where nothing sells. Even with the slow-down I’m still making a couple hundred dollars a week, and my grand total so far is about $2400.I’ve got about 150 books listed right now.

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Yesterday was my last day at my old job, and a simply outstanding day for me.

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I changed my mind and opened college accounts for each of my three kids. Up to now, I’ve been thinking that I shouldn’t do that until I was already maximizing my contributions to every tax advantaged retirement account.

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Last year was the first year I’ve ever managed to pay myself first! Almost every book tells you to do that, to take a certain percent of your income and sock it away before you pay the rest of your billsI spent much of this lovely Portland day doing my books.

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Yay! I’ve accepted a new job at Dotster.com. This means I won’t have any period of unemployment at all.
In fact, with severance and PTO payout, this is turning into a windfall month. There goes another chunk of debt for me.
This was the most interesting jobsearch in ages, since I’m a lot more […]

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A quick and happy update to my lay-off status.

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