I've now shared details on four of my jobs and what I've learned through each of them. If you'd like to re-read any, they are as follows: My Jobs, Pre-College My Jobs, College My Jobs, Graduate School My Jobs, Introduction to the Real World Today we'll continue this series by giving details on the second job I held after graduation. The second job I held … [Read more...]
What Makes ESI Money Different
As many of you know, you can subscribe to ESI Money by either using an RSS feed or being emailed a post summary each time I post. To do either you can visit my "subscribe" page. When someone subscribes to the email list, I get a note saying I have a new subscriber. Likewise, when someone unsubscribes I also get a notice. In addition, sometimes the unsubscriber leaves a … [Read more...]
Update on My Fitness Efforts
It's been a few months since I wrote Physical Fitness and Financial Fitness. In the meantime I posted again on the link between health and wealth (see Being Healthy Can Grow Your Net Worth) and there are additional posts coming on this subject. Before we get to those I thought I'd give you an update on how my fitness plan is going. I'll assume you've read the first post … [Read more...]
My Retirement Story, Part 3
My last post was the second in the series on my retirement. If you missed it or the previous one, post one was titled I Retired! and post two was My Retirement Story, Part 2. With that said, let's continue the story. Working Out the Financials Given the bad situation at work (my boss, the business, and my lack of interest) as well as my personal desire to accomplish … [Read more...]
My Retirement Story, Part 2
Last time we started a series of posts on my retirement. If you missed that and want to read it, check out I Retired! Let's pick up where we left off. Business Results Lagging Our business was "ok" but not great. Then the perfect storm hit. Our first quarter had been propped up by a seasonal selling event where customers had to buy from us. The second quarter had … [Read more...]
I Retired!!!
Yep, I retired. At 52. Feels great. :) I'll give you all the details of why, how, etc. over three posts -- all this week. Thinking About Retirement In case you all haven't noticed, I've been writing a lot lately about retirement. And not just retirement in general, but my retirement specifically. For example, consider these posts: Various Forms of Retirement … [Read more...]
My Jobs, Introduction to the Real World
I've now shared my pre-college jobs, my college jobs, and the jobs I held while in graduate school. Today we'll cover my first "real" job. The fact that I had this job at all was somewhat of a miracle. I had set a goal of working for this Fortune 500 (top 25) years before in undergraduate school. The professor classified them as "the best" company that did what I wanted to … [Read more...]
Playing Financial Chess
As I noted in What I've Been Reading, the Leadership Team at work has been reading Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0). It's a basic management book in many ways (and yet most companies don't implement the basics) but also a very good one if you're interested in business. A quote from the book stood out to me and I … [Read more...]
Dealing with Car Crashes and Insurance Companies
This is the story of two car crashes (unfortunately) and how we dealt with them. I'm hoping this is the last one and that none of you have any issues like these, but if you do, perhaps this post can help. It should also provide for some interesting discussion. :) Oklahoma Crash In May of 2014, my wife was stopped at a stop light when a teenage driver ran into her from … [Read more...]
My Millionaire Habits
A couple months ago I posted on Millionaire Habits, a list of 13 things Business Insider considered to be traits of millionaires. In this piece I thought I'd share what I consider to be my personal millionaire habits. I think it will also be fun for you to share yours in the comments on this post. Here's what I consider to be the habits that have helped me become a … [Read more...]
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