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5 Long-Term Financial Goals and How to Achieve Them

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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. Most people enter the workforce with over 30 years until retirement, so the sooner you can start saving, the more wealth you can build.

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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

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If you’re not familiar with the term or are unsure whether your company is guilty of using dry promotions in a manner that can hurt employee morale, read up on the definition of the term below and explore some common examples of dry promotions. What is a dry promotion? This isn’t always malicious on the employer’s part.

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5 Reasons Being Self Employed Sucks

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When you are self-employed, it means having to bear the market through its ups and downs. Retirement Benefits. Contributions to a retirement plan are usually matched by an employer, and many businesses offer pensions and other benefits to ease the transition into old age. Inconsistent Business. No Paid Vacation.

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Do You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

It might be fun to come up with a few lifestyle ratios to help you measure and move toward your personal goals.  You might have interest income, rental income, and investment income along with your business income or salary. In the example below, this person is well on their way to retiring. You can allocate if necessary.

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

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Ceja points to the helmet and asks Wellman to pick it up. The ejection is one of the easier decisions Ceja faces, because once the hat is placed on the ground, the intent is to show up the umpire. The process of preparing all of the baseballs can take a single person close to an hour, but the umpires usually divvy up the workload.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

I noticed that the things I used to do and enjoyed in my personal time had somehow gotten gobbled up with work. I was calling it early retirement for lack of a better term. It's funny how things just seem to fall into place when you make up your mind about something. One of the first things that got put aside was blogging.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). It is a way to catch up and keep the doors of communication open. When I got home I looked up the company.