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If you have ever read about personal finance tricks for making sure you never runs out of money, you know it is suggested to keep three or more months of your estimated expenses available just in case God smites you for something.
So you might be thinking to yourself, well how much money is that really?
That is where I come in. You see I will do the fun research part for you and tell you fun tricks like this.
Bankrate.com, a quite well known site for money tips, put together an emergency fund calculator. The math is pretty basic. In fact it is really just involves taking the expenses of your major spending categories (rent/mortgage, food, utils, transportation, and debt) and multiplying each by the number of months you need to have saved up. Once you have all these, you would then add the new totals up. Although Bankrate doesn’t suggested it, but I have heard that others would add an extra, say, 15% to this value just in case your car breaks while you are out of work.
Good luck saving.
I am no longer in school and have entered the fabulous world of going to work everyday, but if I were in school today, this list of 10 tools for college students from Next Student would have been helpful.
I currently use Google Reader, Meebo, and Wikipedia on a regular basis, but some of these would have been quite useful. OttoBib, for instance, creates bibliographic references for you. Now that is cool.
Also when I was in school I used Best Web Buys to buy my books and never had to pay more than $150 per term. This site searches the major online stores (used and new) and ranks them. Quite handy.
When I was in college I had about 5 jobs. Since this was part-time work while in school it would be pretty easy to justify if it ever came up during an interview. But what if it wasn’t during school? What if this was your career?
Well as you can probably guess, it all depends on what you do. Penelope Truck, a career building blogger over at Brazen Careerist explains the pros and cons of changing jobs often and/or frequently.
When it comes down to it, you better accomplish something at each job. If you go in and cut spending while increasing profits in just 8 months before moving on to do the same thing, your future employer may just not really care how long you stay. Help me help you.
ririanproject has put together an amazing list of how to get more self-esteem. The list involves not kidding yourself and just smile dammit and other things that wont work for somebody who actually has low self-esteem. But Hell if you have low self-esteem maybe this list will be your last resort or maybe a list of how to like yourself is just plain dumb. Either way, enjoy.
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