Today, I have a guest post from Marissa Geannette, who writes over on her blog, The Unbillable Life. I discovered Marissa’s blog earlier this year and found her story to be very relatable. Like me, Marissa is also a former Biglaw attorney that made the jump to self-employment, moving off the clear, career path in […]
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The Best Personal Finance Books
I read a lot of books and over the years I’ve compiled a decent reading list of what I think are the best personal finance books. When you think about it, books are an amazing tool with a really high return on investment. You can usually get them for free at the library, so they […]
How To Roll Over Your Roth IRA From Betterment To Vanguard (And Why I Did It)
This past year, I finally went ahead and rolled over my Roth IRA from Betterment to Vanguard. It’s been a long time coming. Indeed, a year ago, I wrote a post about how I was going to do exactly that – then, of course, I procrastinated and did nothing for the next 12 months. What […]
The Ultimate Guide to Bank Account Bonuses
One of the things I’ve gotten pretty good at over the years is figuring out ways to get great, risk-free rates of return on my non-invested cash. For years now, I’ve taken advantage of a little financial hack that allows me and my wife to earn a guaranteed 5% interest on up to $10,000 in […]
The Side Hustle Emergency Fund
One of the best ways to guard against a potential job loss is to create an emergency fund. But perhaps an even better thing you can do is to set things up so that if something does happen to your job, you have other jobs still waiting for you. That way, no matter what happens, […]