When you get into the business of freelancing, no matter what your particular skill may be, one of the toughest things to analyze is what your work is worth. Surprisingly, you’ll find most people devalue their skills rather than overvalue them when they are freelancing, merely because they are so fixated on getting as many
Retirement isn’t what it used to be. With the Social Security Administration struggling to keep up with the number of Americans living well past retirement age, many older people are retiring early to ensure they receive the benefits that they’ve been paying into all those years punching the clock five mornings a week. When we
Every day, billions upon billions of pieces of personal data fly across the Internet. We trust the companies we do business with, our governments, our utility companies, our employers, and our health care providers to govern our data religiously, keeping it safe from prying eyes and would-be cybercriminals. We like to believe it’s safe because
One of the toughest obstacles to overcome when you’re freelancing is how actually to go about finding the work. Freelancing can be a rare treat, primarily if you’re usually working 9-to-5 on the same floor of the same building for the same company for a decade or two. Bursting out of the corporate lifestyle to
Moving into a home can be an exciting time in anyone’s life. It suggests an upgrade of lifestyle from the cramped, yard-less, rule-specific world of apartment dwelling to a dwelling of freedom. Moving up in the property world doesn’t necessarily mean a 30-year mortgage, however. Plenty of people like to get their feet wet by
If you go by what we’ve seen in TV show and movies, investing in the stock market looks like a group of people yelling “Sell! Sell!” in a hectic, crowded room of monitors. Stock market investing can be intimidating due to the pictures painted by the media or movies. However, it has been a way of