Taking a Vacation After Getting Fired

Southern Taiwan

Modern life often has us on a treadmill that can make enjoying life a challenge. Our time typically falls into two categories throughout our careers. Gross oversimplification, but I’m talking about time employed and time unemployed. But there is a third category that arises once every few years for many people. TIME WHILE EMPLOYED “Time employed” is the default … Read more

Breaking Job Interview Rules and Still Getting Hired.

Well, one of the ideas of this blog has been validated.    Getting canned can often result in putting you in a better situation in the long run.   It took less than three weeks from my termination date, but I’ve now got a contract with a new employer that on first appearances seems to be … Read more

FIRE your automated advisor and save on fees.

Move your money

There’s a good selection of brokers in the “Robo-Advisor” market these days and most are a good choice for a rollover. Wealthfront and Betterment were among the first. Vanguard has an offering.  Fidelity and Schwab do as well. I’ve even read recently that E*Trade has jumped on the bandwagon.   I have experience with Wealthfront and Betterment … Read more

The First Week of Being Unemployed.

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So the chronology here is as follows.    About four years of working in “big corpa” as an analyst for a large dinosaur retailer as of April 2018 and my first official day of being unemployed was this week.   There’s a definite adjustment just as the caveman from Plato’s cave had to let his eyes … Read more