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Career & Money – Part 6: Landing the Job – Make and Close the Deal
In Part I of “Landing the Job” I talked about researching possible employers, preparing your resume, and finding and applying for potential positions. This time I’ll cover what happens once you get that call you’ve been hoping for: interviewing, receiving the offer/rejection, and negotiating. As I said before, the resume’s sole purpose is to get…
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Ten Money Questions for Julie Goldman
Julie Goldman is funny! She’s a comedian and cast member of The Big Gay Sketch Show that recently premiered on Logo. Julie has been paying the rent for years by doing stand-up and I’m betting that gay sketch is gonna be the big break that leads to mounds of moolah! In the meantime, Julie opened…
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Change Saving Experiment
One of my guilty pleasures is a subscription to Better Homes & Gardens magazine. I get hours of pleasure for less than one dollar a month ($22 for a 2 year subscription). When my magazine arrives I don’t even open it until I’m taking time to peruse it cover to cover. Once I’ve read it…
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Sleeping With Money: Eating With “Class”
This week’s edition of Sleeping With Money is about the struggle lovers often have over how much to spend on food and includes hints on how to compromise. I have never had a partner whose class status was the same as mine growing up. My family had strange values about money. When I was small,…
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The Art of the Upsell
“The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.” — Kin Hubbard Part of the human condition is to take more than we need just because it’s offered. During college, I worked at the Casual Corner one Christmas and this is where I learned the art of the upsell. We were trained…
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Car Sharing: Four Digit Savings (or More) for Infrequent Drivers
To the right is my dream car. Dark, sleek, severe, sexy and utilitarian. Yes, I’m gay and I want a Subaru Outback. In my defense, I was a young child when I said to my father who knows cars, “Dad, what’s that beautiful car?” He said, “That’s a Subaru GL. No one really makes a…
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Being Debt-Free is Not Always What It’s Cracked Up to Be
I know I spend so much time focusing on being debt-free or at least credit card debt free that I sometimes drive myself nuts. And as someone building a business, it is almost a necessity to carry a balance on the business accounts when in the start-up phase unless you have a truckload of capital…
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WWYD: Accept Free Trip without Any Intent to Buy
“Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.” — C. S. Forester Day after day, the Waterwood, Texas infomercial seems to run in continuous loop on one of the televisions at my gym. This is where Erik Estrada (aka Ponch from CHiPs) hawks home sites for a developer by enticing buyers to come take a…
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Become A Magnet: The Physics of Money
Since childhood, I’ve had a fascination with physics, the ways in which objects and energy behave in our world. It became helpful to me lately to think of wealth in terms of physics. Below are some scientific laws as I relate them to the world of money in my own life. This is just one…
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What’s the Cost of Being Out of the Closet?
When looking at the high profile life of celebrities, do you ever wonder exactly how much money would be at stake if they were to come out of the closet? Last week John Amaechi spoke at UC Berkeley about gays in athletics. To those who tune out sports news, John Amaechi is a retired NBA…
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