Archive for May, 2006
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Defining a Long Term Goal
I realize it’s been a couple of weeks since I roughly defined my goal. It’s time to come up with rigid numbers though. I’m not quite comfortable giving exact numbers, so you are going to have to settle for ranges. Deal with it.
My net worth is currently between $150K and $200K. [...] -
The Value of an MBA?
I know that many in the US won’t cry for me when I say that my income is probably twice what the national average is. (I don’t know what the national average, so you can stop figuring now.) I’m a software engineer. However, living in the Boston area, that kind of [...]
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Expensive Day Partially Averted…
As mentioned in my previous post, I planned on buying a new high-end cell phone as well as a upgrade a broken plasma TV on the same day. Worst case scenario, I saw this costing me $1000. That’s a tough hit that you don’t see too many personal finance bloggers make [...]
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An Expensive Day Coming Up Tomorrow…
According to many message board it seems the Palm Treo 700 is going to be available from Sprint tomorrow. Since I’m out of contract, I hope to get it for the $399 price that’s for new subscribers. I expect that it won’t quite be easy and I’ll have to argue or threaten [...]
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More Prosper
This site is quickly becoming the “can I get paid fairly” and the “Prosper” blog. I didn’t intend for it to be this way, but those are the dominating financial focuses in my life right now.
I did a little research in Prosper and there’s a great chart at Savage Number. It will [...] -
Save money on the web
I’m going to highlight an older trick today, only because I don’t think too many know about it or use it. EvilSoft.org uses Thunderbird to find deals on the web. I suggest you skip down to Billy’s comment about using “Thunderbird’s ‘Saved Searches’”. It was a lot easier for me to [...]
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Raise Update (part 3)
This is the last of the series. I heard back from the boss man about what could be done. Apparently the best they could was to put me in the 25% percentile of a person with 2 year less experience than me (according to Salary.com). For my current experience, I’d say [...]
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Raise Update (part 2)
The time was right for a talk with the boss man today and I have to say that the initial reaction seemed quite positive. I didn’t particularly go after any specific numbers, but I should find out tomorrow how much the gap is going to close between what I could get on the [...]
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Raise Update (part 1)
I chickened out in asking for a raise on Friday. I did have a talk with the boss man and dropped a subtle hint. As importantly, I wanted to find out if there was any truth in a rumor about the company and a new venture it was taking. Turns out [...]
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Back from a Long Expensive Weekend
I’m sorry I left you without a post this weekend. I went to New York City. I enjoy it as long as it’s in chunks of 3 days or fewer. Any more than that and I start to get claustrophobic. The other thing about New York is that everything is [...]
