I used to race BMX (bicycle motocross). I’m typically not one to say I’m really good at things. I’m an average tennis player, an alright blogger, and an okay student; but I was a freakin’ boss on the bike. I was so good I actually got a sponsorship and started traveling the state/country for competitions. [...]
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So I just finished reading a pretty awesome book, Love does. It’s written by this guy, Bob Goff, who has lived an incredibly interesting life (Don’t worry this blog post is not a book review). The book is broken up in to 31 different chapters, each chapter being a short story about something Bob did [...]
Got an email yesterday from a PDITF reader (let’s call them Reader X) looking for ways to rid themselves of the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. The email was much longer than the excerpt below, but I think you’ll get the gist… First of all, let me say that I adore you and your approach to [...]
I’ve asked the question before “What would you do if you got fired tomorrow?“. Most of you responded with some lame answer like “I’d go get a job doing exactly what I’m already doing, just with a different company.” That’s the most boring response ever. If I wanted my blog to be boring I would [...]
Walk in to your bosses office right now (I’m assuming you are reading this while on the clock, am I right?) and demand a raise. See what happens. You’ll either get fired, or at the very least laughed at. Unless you work on a commissioned base pay system, truth is you probably don’t have much influence over [...]
So I was doing my typical obsessive compulsive pay stub review yesterday (my pay stub goes online on Thursday, but I don’t get paid until Friday) just to make sure no funny business was going on. As I was looking through my gross pay, net pay, and benefit deductions I decided to take a gander at my accumulated leave. [...]
Have you established vacation policies with yourself or your family? I told Girl Ninja when we first got married I would take her on at least one vacation a year for every year we were without child. Last year we went to San Francisco for a long weekend and Hawaii for 10 days. After only [...]
