Financial Hack

Does anyone have a cross? A Bible? A pastor? Holy water? A priest?!?!?! Something?!?!? I got a phone call……… Turns out a certain awesome company wants to hire me. Or at least that’s what I think the message said. She was very cryptic in her ‘we’d like to speak with you regarding … monetary compensation…’ [...]

The financial counseling class I’ve been taking is a Dave Ramsey class. I attend once weekly and the total length is 13 weeks. In March, I’m taking it again. But let me be clear, I don’t think there is a magic program. No one has the ability to change your life or your attitude… Except [...]

I took my office skills test for the new position. I was surprisingly able to cram in a significant amount of information from the Microsoft Office study book over the weekend. Unfortunately, I feel very silly for buying a book instead of renting one from the library like you, my readers, suggested. I should have [...]

In July, the great state of California decided it was in the best interest its residents, to prohibit the use of cell phones without a hands free device while driving. Whether or not you think the law is helpful… or likely to prevent car accidents… or just another reason for the police to pull us [...]

I was pulling stray carts from the parking lot at my job at the ‘big box’ store when two gentlemen walked by and said, “Don’t they have a machine to do that?!?!?” I smiled and said, “The machine isn’t reliable. I am, so they send me out here.” One of the men looked down at [...]

I had an interview with a local government agency a week ago. Surprisingly, the interview went well and they called to schedule another interview that will include… A test of my skills. Hmm. I guess I had hoped they would simply believe me when I said I classified myself as advanced in Microsoft Office and [...]

Thanks to my position in foods at the ‘big box’ store, I am prohibited from wearing jewelry of any sort including my… Wedding ring. Talk about feeling naked. Unfortunately, my lack of a wedding band signals the world to my ‘singleness’. And – Either a.) I have become more significantly attractive since I married my [...]

I hear that a lot. But anyone can be thin. Let me tell you how. Push carts, work hard, and either forget to eat or… remember to eat and also remember you don’t have the money to eat. So yes. It is easy to be thin. I guess. But this isn’t ‘natural’ folks. I find [...]