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5 Long-Term Financial Goals and How to Achieve Them

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These goals provide motivation, direction and discipline when managing your finances. Save for retirement Expected time: 10-35 years Account types: Retirement plans including IRAs, 401(k)s and pensions Planning for retirement is one of the most common long-term financial goals.

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Meet the Christmas Tree Farmers Keeping the Spirit of Christmas Alive

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It’s a scene straight out of a holiday movie: A family travels to an idyllic farm to cut down their own Christmas tree and spends the day walking the rows, making wreaths and sipping hot cocoa. They’ve filmed several holiday films on the property. every year. It looked like a Hallmark movie.

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The New Migrant Workers: "Workampers", "Vanlifers" and Digital Nomads

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The new migrants are often choosing this as a lifestyle or doing it to supplement their retirement.   Mostly older, workampers are often workamping to fund or augment their retirement. retirement system have shifted responsibility for saving from the employer to the worker, exacerbating the nation’s rich-poor divide.

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How to Find Your Money ‘Why’

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When people are tired or temptations are especially aggressive (hello, holiday season!), Becoming more concretely aware of cultural, familial and personal values might thus be an important key to better personal finance. Or, if that’s too much, imagine the speech a colleague might give upon your retirement. Choose your identity.

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Book Review: The Gig Economy

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The holidays were quite hectic this year. But we were able to carve out some time and read  The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want.   And we're glad we did. How to create a financial life built on accessing rather than owning things.

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5 Reasons Being Self Employed Sucks

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This is especially true when it comes to finances, as many of the benefits that we take for granted were collectively bargained for through years of protest and negotiation. Retirement Benefits. This is in addition to paid sick time, maternity or paternity leave, national holidays or other exclusions. No Paid Vacation.

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8 Pieces of Financial Advice for New College Graduates

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After all, learning how to manage your finances before money mistakes happen can help you avoid easy-to-make slip-ups like dings to your credit score or an overdrawn bank account. If you just traded in your cap and gown for your first taste of real adulting, managing your finances might feel like an overwhelming task.