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Tips For Budgeting When You Are Self-Employed.

I have been self-employed for almost 4 years now, and let me tell you – budgeting can be very difficult when your income is sporadic at best! Some months I make more than others and some I get paid right on time, so budgeting during those times is easy as there is money coming in the door. But other times, payments are late and you have slow months, which means you have to have money nearby you can access quickly. After all, just because you had a slow month doesn’t mean that rent isn’t due or you don’t need to eat.

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Best Places To Start A Business.

I just finished reading an article over at CNN/Money about the 50 best places to launch a business and thought I would point it out to those of you thinking of doing the same. While some of the expected locales are listed, like NYC, Charlotte NC and Connecticut, there are a ton of places on the list that I had not even ever heard of! The cities and towns are organized by size – Top Large Places, Top Mid Places, Top Small Places. So what Top 10 large cities made the list?

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When A High-Paying Job Was $10,000 Per Year.

Remember back when I wrote about inheriting my grandfathers’ old tools? Well, this past weekend I finally got around to taking every tool out of every toolbox, arranging them all over my workbench and the floor in order to clearly see what I had on my hands. Turns out it was quite a lot – so many, in fact, that I am actually going to be giving away a bunch of them. My grandfather saved everything! I think this might be because he grew up during the Depression, so there were lots of broken and “extra” tools in his toolboxes. I snapped this picture of my workbench when I had finished laying them all out for examination:

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What Was The Worst Job You Have Ever Had?

In a sort of follow-up post to yesterday’s “How To Go About Finding A Job Online“, I thought it would be fun to ask you guys what the worst job you ever had was. Most of us have had those particular jobs that were just really bad for whatever reason, and I am no exception — I have had a few jobs that I just hated! I have been working since I was 13 years old and have done some pretty random jobs:

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  • Swept the floors in a hair salon.
  • Prepared cars for auction (my worst job ever).
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How To Go About Finding A Job Online.

While the job market may be tight, and getting that perfect job custom-designed for you might be out of reach for a bit, it doesn’t mean that you should just give up hope. My brother was unemployed for 4+ months before finding another gig — and while it’s not exactly what he wanted, it is a well-paying job in his field so he couldn’t be happier about it. I have been self-employed for almost 4 years now, and thus have not had to look for a job in a long time, but I came across an article on CNN Money that I thought had some great tips I could share with those of you looking for a new job. Here are the general tips from the article on how to find a job online, but click over to it if any of it looks like it could be helpful to you:

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