I've talked several times about how your career is your most important financial asset. Given this, you want to treat your career like other major assets. You want to grow it, of course. But just as important is protecting it. That's why I wrote Career Insurance: Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset. One of the best ways to protect your career, but also one of the … [Read more...]
How to Grow Your Career by Volunteering
How would you like to grow your career (and work towards earning more money) while also using your skills to help others? Well, then I have something for you! Today we're going to talk about the advantages volunteering can have on your career. More specifically, we'll detail how volunteering can assist in two of the seven steps to growing your career: helping … [Read more...]
Three Career Resolutions to Make You Millions
Ok, I'm guilty! Not only am I posting one New Year's resolution article (the first was my "12 books" post), but I'm now publishing a second one! What gives? Well, I'm adding several guest posts I've done for other sites on ESI Money and this one just happens to work for this time of year. Plus, I can't have too many "make more money at your career" posts, can I? I … [Read more...]
Seven Small Things You Can Do to Grow Your Career
One foundational principle of my personal finance perspective is that your career is your most important financial asset. If you don't believe me, take an average salary (or one you expect to earn), and multiply it by 40 working years (the length of an average career). Compare that number to all your other assets. Is there anything even close? Probably not. Also look … [Read more...]
Three Top Resume Tips
Several months ago, a friend recommended I give reddit a try. He said there was lots going on at the site and I would enjoy it. "Enjoy" was not the first word I thought of when he mentioned it. I think I was more in the "fear" camp initially. But I eventually overcame my concerns, joined reddit, and spent a couple months trying to get into the flow of how things worked … [Read more...]
Five Times My Career Went Sideways and What I Learned from It
I worked for 28 years before I retired. During that time I was quite successful. I became a VP just after I turned 30. I won numerous company and national awards. I delivered great business results and thus my career advanced quickly. This allowed me to grow my income by over 8% annually. Eventually I became the president of a $100 million company with 800 … [Read more...]
Make More Money by Having Salary Conversations
If you're a money blogger, you get a lot of email. People want to post this article or that article on your site. It will be "free" of course and will likely be "high quality", "SEO friendly", and "completely unique." All they ask in return is a dofollow link to their site. You know, their gambling site, their payday loan site, or their other completely worthless … [Read more...]
Career Advice from a $300k Earner
If you've read this blog for more than 30 seconds you know how important earning is to your financial success. After all, "E" (for earning) is the first letter in the site's name. There's a reason for this -- earning was one of the three vital steps I used to become wealthy and retire early. Then of course there are the millionaires I interview. Many of them have built … [Read more...]
Five Easy Steps to Making Millions and Enjoying Your Job
The following is a guest post I wrote that originally appeared on Get Rich Slowly. The age-old money adage is "spend less than you earn." It's good advice. One of my favorites actually. But it gets translated by many as simply "control your spending." While that's certainly part of the equation, there's an equally important complement related to earning. I submit … [Read more...]
The Six Top Millionaire Tips on How to Grow Your Income
There have been a couple consistent findings about millionaires' careers/incomes over our first 100 millionaire interviews. First, millionaires generally make a lot of money. The average annual income was $294k and the median was $250k. There's a reason "E" (for "earn") is the first letter in E-S-I. And it's no accident that high net worth individuals often have high … [Read more...]
