Author Archives: livafi

The Job Experience, IT Plumbing: Year #5, Part 2

In the last post, I barely spoke about the actual Job Experience at my new employer, FinancialCompany. Instead, I focused a lot of content on why I dislike the core makeup of office jobs. That’s getting changed, pronto. For better … Continue reading

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The Job Experience, IT Plumbing: Year #5, Part 1

In late 2003, I finally quit my first office job.

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June 2014 Expenses

Let’s take a relaxing breather from those uber-lengthy Job Experience posts and instead crunch some numbers for June.

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The Job Experience, Tech Support: Year #4, Part 2

Year 4, Part 2/2 It’s time to finish up year 4. In the first part of the year, I finally made critical lifestyle changes to enable a higher savings rate and remove a great deal of job-related stress. Here in … Continue reading

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The Job Experience, Tech Support: Year #4, Part 1

Year 4 All jobs eventually come to an end. My tech support role died at the end of year 4. I didn’t get fired or laid off. I left because it was time for me to go. You’re probably wondering … Continue reading

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The Job Experience: Tech Support, Year #3

Year 3 A super quick summary of where we are:

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The Job Experience: Tech Support, Year #2

Year 2 In my second year working technical support, the weeks start to fly by, especially when compared to the first.

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The Job Experience: Tech Support, Year #1

  Serious Warning: I’m going to embark on some very long, self-indulgent posts through June the end of July mid-August. If you read blogs strictly for financial insight, skip these. I won’t be offended, and you’ll thank yourself for not wasting ten minutes … Continue reading

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Report Card and Blog Goals Update

When I started this blog in early January, I had a few simple goals.

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Steal This Blog

A few people have asked me, via email, whether or not I’m generating any revenue from blogging. So I’ll state, once and for the record, the truth on this.

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