Roth IRA

Retirement Planning In Your 20s

Retirement planning in your 20s is imperative to establishing a great retirement.  Although the amount you can save in your 20s may seem small, starting early allows for many extra years of compounding growth.  Starting in your 20s can mean retiring several years ahead of your peers who choose to …

How To Organize Your Finances

I’m a very detail oriented person.  I love numbers, spreadsheets and of course money. For my entire adult life I have organized my money using spreadsheets. When I got my first job in 2004 I started a spreadsheet to keep track of my income.  In 2005 I started a net …

It all adds up

10 Side Hustles For Seasonal Workers

For the past 9 years I have been mostly a seasonal worker, with the bulk of my work occurring in the spring and in the fall. From time to time I have had jobs in my industry during the winter, but it certainly isn’t a guarantee.  One of the most …

The SWEAT Pledge

One of the key reasons I started this blog was to help give advice to young adults about getting their lives established. Across the roughly 150 articles published to date I have addressed a myriad of topics on personal finance, but career development has been largely ignored. Over the coming …