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How to Have It All: Balancing Frugality with Social Life

How to Have It All: Balancing Frugality with Social Life

Your twenties and thirties are supposed to be the best years of your lives. You finally have the freedom to do whatever you want as an adult. You’ve had time to get that rebellious streak and experimentation out of you during your teenage years and early twenties. While you’ve probably made your share of mistakes, as an adult you are finally getting comfortable being in your own skin. You are at a place where you can do whatever you want, be…

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I Quit My Job!

I Quit My Job!

I did it. I just resigned from my job. It doesn’t make me feel good to do it on Friday the 13th, but I don’t think there is such thing as a good day to resign. I mentioned before that a month since my contract position ended, I was lucky enough to secure a new job. However, the downside was I had to resign from my part-time job. Although I never liked the job and I always had the intention…

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Short Term and Long Term Financial Goals of a Millennial

Short Term and Long Term Financial Goals of a Millennial

As I am entering my 30s in a couple years and with no more school in the way, I am absolutely excited to begin this new phase of my life. I feel like I have a good understanding of who I am and more or less know where I want to be headed in the future. I am a very goal-oriented individual and for as far back as I can remember, I’ve always thought of life in the years… what…

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Life Updates: New Promotion, New Job, but Lower Pay?

Life Updates: New Promotion, New Job, but Lower Pay?

It’s been over a month since I’ve updated which I feel disappointed about. One of my biggest dilemmas when I started this blog was how much I wanted to divulge in terms of my professional career and personal life. However, once I’ve thought it through, I realized just how big my career plays a part in my life. It is, after all, how I make my living and plan to pay off my loans. In fact, it is the entire reason I…

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How I Got Into $200,000 Debt

How I Got Into $200,000 Debt

Responsible. That’s a word that gets thrown around by people who know me, but from the title of this blog post, many will assume that I am anything but, especially where money is concern. So how did I amass this much debt? Student loan is the answer as you may have expected. After graduating from undergrad, I went right into graduate school where the cost of tuition per year was $45,000 for my first year up to $50,000 when I finished. That was tuition by itself without the added cost of…

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