Many women have had to face the reality of either returning to work or working longer hours in order to make ends meet. This may be due to a spouse or partner losing their job, or their own job loss. But where does this leave working women during the recession?
2009 saw a drastic increase in [...]
Remember this story? Most of you were fired up, and rightfully so. It’s a$$inine to bar someone to get a job because they have bad credit. This is why we have criminal background checks. Perhaps a remedy would be to give the person a mandatory personal finance coach to work with them [...]
Marie Claire has a very interesting article that details the 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women and I agree with their rationale.
1. Be Yourself.
In order to achieve anything in life, you need to be authentic and true to who you are. This allows people to understand who you are at the core while allowing [...]
So I know you’re saying, find my passion? Ginger, I can hardly find a job I like much less talk about my passion! Those of you that do have jobs, I know these days may find it hard to tolerate let alone fathom adding the word passionate as a descriptor to your day job.
Been [...]
With Obama’s recent visit to the Cleveland clinic, who will cease hiring smokers as of September 1, the Today Show is speculating that this may become a corporate health care trend.
Here’s the message from Dr Delos Cosgrove, CEO and President at the Cleveland Clinic:
While we are on the topic of smoking, I understand that [...]
Yes you read right! If you are unemployed and have bad credit then you have another hurdle to get past: employers unwilling to higher you because of bad credit.
It’s important to note that this is the kind of bad credit where the potential employee has shown reckless irresponsibility with their financial life thus making the employer unwilling [...]
If you’ve been reading this blog for some time then you know that I am truly on a quest to “have it all”. I want the man, the house, kids, degree and picket fence all by 30, and I got started at 26.
But is this possible? More importantly, necessary?
My take is that we’re growing up [...]
What can you afford to live without?
We were faced with this question while visiting some friends in Manhattan this weekend. This was our first time visiting their apartment and we were pleasantly surprised to say the least. So much so it made us go home and plan a full scale decluttering job but more on [...]
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I struggle often with how much to disclose around our personal finances as I get lots of questions around why I don’t disclose our income and debts as other bloggers have in the personal finance blogosphere. I don’t have the luxury of anonymity as other bloggers do, so this is one thing [...]
Hard times and shrinking paychecks are forcing some stay at home moms to return to the job market. Meet the Economommies. They are women who chose to leave the workforce in order to focus more on child rearing but with recent market downturns, scrambling to re-enter the workforce.
Sites like MomCorps have proven invaluable to Economoms [...]
