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 was the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2016
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...]
What 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...]
What I Did with 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 wants to … [Read more...]
Millionaire Habits
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. They … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Millions More: Network
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...]
My Jobs, Pre-College
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 want to … [Read more...]
The Ten Worst Money Mistakes Anyone 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 financial … [Read more...]
The Best Personal Finance Books of All Time: Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing
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. Since I'm a big fan of index funds and primarily use Vanguard funds, it's … [Read more...]
