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

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With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. I started my blog for fun, highlighting how you can travel and get discounts and do stuff on a budget. Then, in 2019, she lost her job. Akpan credits it all to losing her job.

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

Success

With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. I started my blog for fun, highlighting how you can travel and get discounts and do stuff on a budget. Then, in 2019, she lost her job. Akpan credits it all to losing her job.

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Answering Reader Mail: Can an EA salary support a family?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Here are some money management tips I've learned over the years that may help you. Always buy the most expensive health insurance you can afford. Learn the value of compound interest and each paycheck pay yourself to your savings accounts as much as you can, typically 10-35 per cent of your paycheck. So the short answer is yes.

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

Men With Pens

So when she sent me this guest post that outlines some of her learning curve lessons as a new freelancer, I was thrilled – here was someone who’d gone from zero to being a confident writer who could stand up for herself, and for her business. By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

You put hours of effort and study into learning a certain subject inside and out. You probably can’t remember when you last put the knowledge you learned in university to work in your everyday business affairs. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. I didn’t pay attention to what I’d learned.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. That’s like being able to attend a workshop given by an expert authority three times a week and learn how to improve your business without paying a penny.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Book Review: The Retail Doctor's.

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Expressive : Spontaneous, good negotiator,and learns by doing. The woman was retired, on a fixed income and now had a new puppy. Less expensive products were offered, but Jane kept coming back to her original choice, and just wanted to think about it. An example of this “Thinker&# would be Dr. Spock from Star Trek.