Real financial advice for real scientists
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…
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…
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…
Loud rooms packed with strange people chatting away in small circles are normally the stuff of nightmares for me. I once nearly passed out in front of my 8th grade English class because the teacher wanted me to recite a poem about flirting in front of twenty other students (four of whom I had…
