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Archives for May 2016

My Jobs, College

May 30, 2016 By ESI 1 Comment

The jobs I've had including my time in DC

The other day I listed all the jobs I held in high school and detailed what I learned from them. Today I want to continue this series by sharing the jobs I held while in college. As a freshman, I worked in the library as part of a work-study program. It was a simple job and for only eight hours a week. I didn't get any lasting impressions/benefits from it, though it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Career

More Reasons to Use a CPA for Taxes

May 26, 2016 By ESI 2 Comments

More reasons to use a CPA for taxes

One thing I love about running a blog is the great comments. ESI Money already has several readers who have left numerous insightful and helpful comments. Their thoughts posted on this site are a blessing to me. One such comment was left on my post titled Why I Use a CPA to Do My Taxes. It offered both great advice as well as the personal experience of an expert, two things … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Taxes

What I’ve Been Reading

May 23, 2016 By ESI 15 Comments

These are the books I've been reading

Here's an interesting piece from the Business Insider. It's titled: "A self-made millionaire who studied 1,200 wealthy people found they all have one — free — pastime in common". Want to guess what that pastime is? Yep. Reading. The highlights of the piece: In his research, he noticed a pastime the rich have in common: They self-educate by reading. "Walk into a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books

What I Did with My Tax Refund

May 19, 2016 By ESI 7 Comments

How I spent my tax refund

Now that tax time is over, we can all step back a bit and relax. Even though I use a CPA to do my taxes, it's a stressful and busy time for me. I can't imagine how bad it is for people with complicated taxes who do their own returns. Ugh. Anyway, I thought we'd talk about a "fun" tax topic today -- tax returns. I know getting one is not the objective (after all, who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Taxes

Millionaire Habits

May 16, 2016 By ESI 16 Comments

Habits of millionaires

I stumbled upon this article recently on the 13 habits of self-made millionaires. They had an interesting take (not what I expected) on the habits of millionaires that I thought was worth sharing and discussing. Specifically, I wanted to see how I stacked up compared to their list. You might want to as well. They list the habits as: 1. They read consistently. 2. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Net Worth

7 Steps to Millions More: Network

May 12, 2016 By ESI 3 Comments

networking is a key to career success

In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of step #3: network. If you missed the other posts in this series, they are: 7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform 7 Steps to Millions More: Be Likeable Broad Topic Networking is a very broad topic. Many, many books … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Earn

My Jobs, Pre-College

May 9, 2016 By ESI 8 Comments

my first job was in a grocery store

I've talked a lot about managing your career, so I thought it would be interesting (maybe, maybe not, you decide) for me to detail the jobs I've held in my lifetime, what I gained from each of them, what I learned, how I grew my income, etc. I'll be doing this over a series of posts that will last a several months (I'll space them out). We'll see how it goes. Today I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Career

The Ten Worst Money Mistakes Anyone Can Make

May 5, 2016 By ESI 21 Comments

10 worst money mistakes you can make

When it comes down to it success in managing personal finances is pretty simple: spend less than you earn over a long period of time and invest the difference. Said another way, they boil down to E-S-I.  :) If this is the heart of your financial plan, it's likely that you’ll be prosperous. That said, there is one other thing you’ll need to do – you must avoid the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ESI Thoughts, Net Worth

The Best Personal Finance Books of All Time: Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing

May 2, 2016 By ESI 4 Comments

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing is a great book

This post is the latest in my series on the Best Personal Finance Books of All Time. As a refresher, we've already covered: The Millionaire Next Door The Richest Man in Babylon Today we'll discuss The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing which is probably my favorite investing book of all-time. (And one of my only five money books you ever need to read.) Since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Invest

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