Real financial advice for real scientists
At Science Finance, we talk about how to manage your money as a scientist. But… what if you can’t be one? A serious topic and one I know about first hand. Not Finding A Position Is Common We don’t really become scientists to be rich or famous. You usually pick a degree, such as…
Welcome to 2019!! Clearly Science Finance Lab and Science Finance Cat couldn’t give two hoots, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. The New Year is a great time to set resolutions. In fact, 94% of millennials are planning on making financial resolutions in 2019, according to one study. But if most New Year’s resolutions fall…
Well, shucky darn, now you’ve done it. You’ve really messed up this time. You knew that managing your finances well was important, and yet you still threw your hands up in the air like a tight-butted rodeo cowboy and yelled YOLO. When the dust settled, your bank account was sadder than a kid who’d gotten…
I’m an inherently competitive person. Unless it comes to sports, in which case I will tune you out and go to my happy place with biology textbooks and craft beer. That’s why I have such a hard time with the personal finance community sometimes. From my eyes — not everyone’s eyes, but mine own, and…
This spring I’ll be turning 31 years old. That puts me in a distinct minority of people among the generations who are both adept at using the Internet now, and who can also remember what it was like before the Internet. The Internet has brought many wonderful things like my job and mail-order puppies,…
If there’s one person who hates student loan debt more than me, it might be Robert Farrington from The College Investor. That’s why I’m participating in the Student Loan Movement that he’s organized for the month of March. Check out the deets here, including free resources and prizes! It’s no secret that I hate…
I am a skeptical person. Don’t tell me about how you believe in astrology, homeopathy, or healing crystals. I won’t buy your damn essential oils, Janet, or your hideous tights for that matter. I’ll crouch in the corner of the room and hiss if forced to be near anything that’s been within a mile…
Last weekend I came back from my second FinCon. It was an amazing experience, mostly because this time some people actually recognized me. I’ll be honest with you. Since I started freelance writing full-time, I spend most of my days holed up in my apartment with just my cats and weird lab as coworkers….
My husband, Zach, is a hardcore video game nerd. I, in fact, am not. I get more joy out of tracking our financial progress than in blasting away aliens on a TV screen. #NerdAlert This got me thinking, though: why can’t personal finance be played like a game? And if it was a game,…
Stephen King once said, “People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.” I sympathize. Despite my heavy-metal-playing-ways and my love of hunting and tattoos, I really am a softie inside. I’d…
