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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Then, in 2019, she lost her job. With the majority of the money made from their house, she decided to buy an RV off Facebook Marketplace. Now, Akpan makes it a point to ask people if they have a Roth individual retirement account. The consistent income made it hard to see how their monthly payments were beginning to add up.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Then, in 2019, she lost her job. With the majority of the money made from their house, she decided to buy an RV off Facebook Marketplace. Now, Akpan makes it a point to ask people if they have a Roth individual retirement account. The consistent income made it hard to see how their monthly payments were beginning to add up.

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The constant craving to put numbers on working relationships

Workplace Insight

In his sardonic 1957 book Parkinson’s Law he sets out advice on what time to arrive at a cocktail party (not aged so well), how to select job applicants, the best age at which to retire, and something he calls injellitance, defined as the disastrous rise to authority of individuals with an unusually high mix of incompetence and jealousy.