The benefits of aging include senior discounts, wisdom gained from experience and â when it comes to retirement saving â catch-up contributions. Anyone 50 and older have the option to contribute extra cash to a wide variety of retirement accounts. And ⦠Continue reading â
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There you are, sitting in your high schoolâs guidance office talking with your counselor about heading off to college after graduation. Youâre all excited thinking about the new friends and freedom youâll have until you go home to parents who remind you that college isnât cheap. With over half of college students taking on debt,
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Kicking Ass with Money is much like healthy eating and joyful living. It’s a series of daily habits that get you ahead, rather than a one-time heroic effort that fixes all your problems so you can go back to whatever you were doing before. Because of this parallel, the subject of food is one of the […]
Budgeting for travel is hard enough as it is. But add in a job that provides inconsistent income it may seem impossible. After years of trial and error, I finally figured out a way to stop stressing about budgeting and save for travel (and retirement!) all at the same time. The Tricks 1. Paying myself
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More and more, companies are dispensing with traditional annual employee reviews. They say this is out of sensitivity to a new generation of employees who find reviews stressful. The real reason may be that dispensing with employee reviews saves companies money — albeit at the expense of their employees.
Microsoft and Dell are among the high-profile companies that have made news recently by dumping annual employee reviews, and Silicon Valley has long turned its nose up at such traditional means of measuring performance and managing people. For many employees, the initial reaction is relief, but they would be wise to look closer. Without that annual review process, they could find that opportunities to get a raise are fewer and more difficult to obtain.
As much as you may view a formal review as resembling an interrogation scene out of George Orwell’s “1984,” it should work to your benefit — both financially and in terms of feeling more connected to your workplace.