Financial Goals – Motivation for Success
It was in the fall that my wife and I set financial goals for ourselves for the next few years. Every couple of months, I like to write an update on our progress. I wrote my recent progress on our financial goals a couple months ago, which was actually the second...
Planning a Wedding Budget
The day of your wedding is the day that you have been dreaming about forever. You may have an elaborate fantasy of everything being absolutely perfect. It is very to create the perfect wedding ceremony without depleting your savings account. The easiest step in doing...
7 Tips For Your First 90 Days of Your Job
Congrats! You landed a job. All of your hard work searching for a job has paid off. But now is not the time to rest! You have to prove to your new boss that you are worth every penny they are paying you, and more. Typically in most organizations, your first three...
What Jobs Do You Avoid?
Like any 20-something young adult does, I often wonder what my long-term career will be (if I have one). Sure, I may dream of being a self-employed business person, but it is hard to see that it will come true some days. While it may be difficult to nail down what I...
How Marketing Influences Young Adults
As I buy more and more stuff these days and have more transactions with different businesses, the more I am convinced that I am making my decisions based on marketing advertisement campaigns. While I love to think that I have power over and against the marketing...
How to Invest Your 401(k) Contributions
Recently, Corey posted on How to Start Saving for Retirement. I wanted to take this a step further and help out the readers with how you should invest your retirement savings. When I first started working, I had a good idea of how I wanted to invest the money I was...
How to Consolidate Student Loans
It’s common for students who borrowed to pay for their schooling to have loans handled by more than one servicer. Consolidating student loans can make monthly payments lower by stretching the term of the loan into a longer loan, and cutting the interest rate. In...
The Cost of Moving
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine. He and his fiancé were moving into their new apartment prior to their wedding (this is the same friend whose wedding I was in – read all about how much it cost me). As our conversation unfolded, the topic of...
Job Interview Tips
Have you ever felt like you were guaranteed the job, only to be turned down hours or days later? When applying for jobs, whether it be immediately after graduation, or just trying to move up the corporate ladder, the interview can be one of the most important aspects...
Hi, I’m Corey. I’m a husband, college graduate, young adult, and non-profit manager. I enjoy learning new things about personal finance and sharing them with my loyal readers. Join the conversation.