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The Financial Reality Of Being A Broke Wildlife Biologist

May 17, 2017

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  Follow your passion. Choose a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. These and other tidbits of wisdom are slapped on cards, posters, and Pinterest images around the world. They’re poured out…

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Five Reasons Why Blogging Is A Great Side Hustle Idea

March 29, 2017

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  Last week I wrote an epic post entitled Five Reasons Why Blogging Is A Terrible Side Hustle Idea. It garnered a lot of attention because I shed some light on some of the lesser-touted aspects of blogging. I still stick by my guns; I think blogging is probably a terrible side hustle for a…

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Five Reasons Why Blogging Is A Terrible Side Hustle

March 22, 2017

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  Hey! You! Do you want to make hundreds of thousands of dollars while staying at home in your footie PJs? No one even has to know about those holes covering your nether bits! If so, then try my five-minute guide to blogging! Have you ever read any advertisements like this? I’ll be honest; I…

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How I Went from Community College and $22k a Year to a Six Figure Earning MBA

March 15, 2017

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  One of my biggest financial struggles is overcoming a low salary. I was still earning $32k two years after getting my M.S. – I actually got paid more per hour while I was still in grad school! And I’ll be honest; now that I’m self-employed for the time being, it still isn’t much higher….

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Diversify Your Income And Avoid Financial Extinction: In the biology world, specialists are more likely to go extinct. Here's why you need to diversify your income and be a generalist, not a specialist.

Diversify Your Income And Avoid Financial Extinction

February 22, 2017

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A stuffed capercaillie sits mounted high on the wall in my old wildlife classroom. It used to distract me all the time; I’d picture it coming alive and taking flight across the room in a flurry of feathers and bird poop. It would have been be quite the sight; capercaillies are halfway in size between…

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How much can you earn as a starting freelance writer? Starting out as a freelance writer can be scary, especially if you've never done anything like it before. Here is how much I made in my first year! #blogging #college #livingpaychecktopaycheck

How much can you earn as a starting freelance writer?

February 8, 2017

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Have you ever done something that scared you so much you had to refrain from peeing your pants and running away to a foreign country? That was me a year ago when I was a starting freelance writer! In January 2016 I officially started as a part-time freelance writer, working for myself. It scared the…

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Why Millennials Need To Rethink Career Plans Amid A Changing Employment Landscape

Why Millennials Need To Rethink Career Plans Amid A Changing Employment Landscape

January 25, 2017

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I just lost my job. Or, rather, I didn’t get my job back that I was hopefully being re-hired for. It’s a bit confusing, but that’s the point of the story: jobs for young people just starting out in the career world are confusing and not secure. Last summer, I was hired on with the…

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Make More Money A Fear Busting Game Plan to Start Side Hustling

Make More Money: A Fear-Busting Game Plan To Start Side Hustling

December 28, 2016

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Being in debt sucks. Being in debt and making peanuts for a salary and knowing all the steps you need to take to be financially secure (like contributing $5,500/year to a Roth IRA or having a fully-funded emergency fund) yet being unable to take them is a special kind of hell.   Sometimes Saving Money…

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The Side Hustle Safety Net: Protect Yourself Against Job Loss When You Don’t Yet Have An Emergency Fund

The Side Hustle Safety Net: Protect Yourself Against Job Loss When You Don’t Yet Have An Emergency Fund

December 14, 2016

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How secure do you think your job is? Are you sure? What would you do if you went in to work one day and found out you’re out of a job by next week? That actually happened to me last week.   I lost my job! After struggling to find good employment for nearly two…

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My Make-Money List: What I’ve Learned From All The Ways I’ve Made Money

October 27, 2016

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  Have you ever thought back on some of the hare-brained money-making ideas you had as a kid? Did you ever sit in the sun on a hot day, staring at strangers and hoping they’d buy your reconstituted lemonade? Or woefully wander the neighborhood, offering to rake leaves? Whatever happened to those jobs? What did…

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