Please, please, please do yourself a big favor, open your mind for just a couple minutes, and read this post.Doing so and taking action on it could net you millions in extra net worth and cut your time to financial independence (FI) substantially.That's worth a read and consideration, right? Yes, I'm Begging So why did I begin this post by begging you to read it? … [Read more...]
The Difference a High Starting Salary Can Make
We've talked several times about the value of growing your career, which then allows you to earn better than average annual increases.There are seven steps you can take to earn higher increases and when you do, you can literally earn millions of dollars more over the course of your working lifetime.But there's another important piece to maximizing your career earnings. … [Read more...]
My Jobs, Last Three Jobs Before Retirement
Last time in this series I shared the events that led to an interesting work transition for me.This time we'll wrap up the series by highlighting the last three jobs I had before I retired (two of which you know a lot about already.)As usual, these three feature a lot of twists and turns, so hold on to your seats. Best Job of My Life After the transition detailed in … [Read more...]
Investing in Your Career Can Pay Off Big-time
Though I'm retired, I still have LinkedIn as one of the tabs that comes up when I open my browser each morning.I usually look at a few articles as well as check notifications to see what's happening with people I know -- just to keep in the loop a bit.Just like on other social media platforms, people often post inspirational or thought-provoking comments.A few … [Read more...]
Peak Performers Can Earn More
Here's an interesting piece from Kiplinger which agrees with what I've said several times about getting annual raises as well as working to grow your career.I wanted to highlight it because I get a lot of push-back from readers on the issue of annual pay increases. Many say it's simply not realistic to get higher than 3% raises consistently.Yes, it is. I've personally … [Read more...]
Stop Making Money Excuses
Well, it's been awhile since I've had a good rant here, so let's fire one up today. ;)I've been blogging on one site or another for over 12 years now.It doesn't take nearly that long -- in fact it takes about two minutes -- to realize that people like to make excuses about why they aren't wealthy.No matter how simple the topic or suggestion might be, there's someone … [Read more...]
Skills that Can Grow Your Career and Earnings
After writing about how to grow your career earnings by learning to speak in public. I began thinking: what are the other skills that people can acquire that will grow their careers and help them earn more?After all, if public speaking increases your income potential by 50%, why not add a few others with pay bumps here and there? Sounds like a recipe for high earnings, … [Read more...]
The Value of an MBA
In The Value of Growing Your Career: A Real-Life Example I mentioned that getting my MBA was one of the vital moves I made to grow my income.Separately, I was listening to an Afford Anything podcast about careers and the issue of return rate on various career investments came up. They were talking more about seminars, training, and the like, but the same principle applies … [Read more...]
My Jobs, An Interesting Transition
Last time I shared some of my career history I left off when my company had a big downturn.Today I continue this series by giving details on the next position I held.As you recall, the company was doing poorly at a key time period and the blame was being placed on my shoulders.At the same time, a few other things were going on:As I mentioned in the last post, … [Read more...]
The Value of Growing Your Career: A Real-Life Example
In the course of writing the follow-up post to How to Go from Zero to Millionaire, Part 1 I ran a boatload of numbers on Quicken (thankfully I have 22 years of data saved) and recorded my earnings by year (for the years I didn't have, I knew my first starting salary and estimated from there until I got to the point where I had data).I'll be continuing that series with part … [Read more...]
