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Job-Seeking Expenses

September 28th, 2012 | 11 Comments

Job-Seeking Expenses

Kyle and I attended a seminar last week where a panel of postdocs/new faculty members gave advice on finding a postdoc position.  When they were talking about interviewing, one of them mentioned that the potential advisors he interviewed with tended to pay for either the flight or hotel expenses but not both.  The others on the panel concurred that only about half of their travel expenses were paid on average.   That was shocking to me!  When … Read entire article »

Filed under: career, spending, travel

Do You Ever Just Give In and Spend?

February 27th, 2012 | 30 Comments

Do You Ever Just Give In and Spend?

I’ve written several times about our targeted short-term savings accounts.  For the most part these work very well for us in saving for our anticipated expenses.  But sometimes, the system backfires – specifically, when we need (?) something that we haven’t saved for, or haven’t saved enough for.  Dividing up our cash among all these accounts means we have to do some psychological tricks to get the money from elsewhere.   We’ve had two instances of this … Read entire article »

Filed under: budgeting, choices, spending, targeted savings