Who I am & The Story Behind Money After Graduation
I recently backed up all of Money After Graduation’s posts… manually. I literally copied and pasted every word into word documents, and then saved them in the cloud. This was done primarily to back up...
View ArticleThe no-cost MOOC MBA
A few months ago, I stumbled on a crazy story: a young woman was getting an MBA online for free through MOOCs. I was intrigued. After all, I had just recently got on board the online course craze — and...
View ArticleTransitions: Turning a Blog into a Real Business
Welcome, readers, to the new Money After Graduation. As you can see, we’ve gotten a bit of a facelift — what’s happening behind the scenes is even more exciting. I’ve been running Money After...
View ArticleBuying-In To Our Personal Narrative
Why do you shop? What makes you purchase the things you do? Why do you like what you like or want what you want? Most of us make our purchases without asking “why”, and for those times we do, “because...
View Article3 Things That Don’t Matter When Negotiating Your Salary
I am a huge advocate of increasing your income. It’s far more effective in building long-term wealth than trying to trim your budget. There is a limit to what you can pare down or axe from your budget,...
View ArticleGetting an MBA in Finance: The Logistics
On June 12th, I walked the convocation stage to culminate two years of full-time study to receive an MBA specializing in Finance. In the interest of sharing my experience, I’ve split it up into two...
View ArticleGetting an MBA in Finance: The Experience
I had originally meant to get this up last week, right after I wrote, Part 1 – Getting an MBA in Finance: The Logistics, but I’ve found it’s taken me a lot longer to unwind the MBA experience than I...
View ArticleYou Only Have Six More Months
We’ve all made comments about how fast this year seems to be going, but instead of looking in reverse, I want you to look forward. There are only six more months left in 2015. For me, this means just...
View ArticleWake up, you need to make money
With my website tagline “get rich young” and my Twitter bio singing to the world that “I make millennials rich”, I probably look like I have a secret get-rich-quick scheme for the masses. I don’t....
View ArticleYou Work Too Hard Not To Care
You work at least 40 hours per week, possibly more. You likely spend an additional 15 hours or more commuting. As a result, you probably work more than you do anything else: more than you sleep, more...
View ArticleIf you’re tired of always losing, stop playing the game
A few weeks ago, I shared how the economic downturn is affecting my city (and myself!). I was surprised by the number of commenters that are also from Calgary that agreed they’ve noticed the city seems...
View ArticleWhy All Bloggers Should Create & Sell Products
One of the coolest trends emerging online, particularly in the personal finance sphere, is more and more bloggers are creating and selling their own products and services. Despite the general approval...
View ArticleWas my university education a waste?
I’m a highly educated individual. I hold both a Bachelor of Science and an MBA in Finance from two great schools in Canada. Tens of thousands of dollars of my education was paid for in scholarships,...
View Article6 Ways I Set Up My Finances For Self-Employment
I know many of you are curious about how my finances will be impacted by my jump to self-employment next week — and no wonder, because it’s going to be a pretty BIG impact! For the past 4 years, I’ve...
View ArticleDrinks & Dollars Episode 1
For those that didn’t catch it when I first posted it this week, I shared the FIRST edition of Drinks & Dollars — where I consume wine while answering your personal finance questions. What could go...
View ArticleIt’s my last day of work, I’m all yours.
It’s the last day at my job! You better celebrate, because I am. For those that don’t know, I have left my full-time job as a consultant to early-stage start-ups to suffer at the hands of my own...
View Article20 Things You Need To Know About Money in Your 20’s
Yours truly is turning 30 on Saturday, and I’m feeling reflective about my youth. I’ve been thinking lately what I would tell my 20-year-old self about money if I could go back in time. Even better, I...
View ArticleWays to Maximize Spending with a Cash Back Card
If you are able to budget appropriately and live within your means, a credit card is a powerful tool that can help you track your spending, build credit, protect your purchases, get you discounts, and...
View ArticleWhy 29 Was The Most Powerful Year of My Life
This is a bit of an unusual year-end post. It’s certainly not the recap I expected to write when I first outlined my Financial Plan for 2015 a year ago. As most of you have seen, a lot of my thinking...
View ArticleWhy You Should Practice Poverty For One Week This Year
I wish I could take credit for this idea, but I first head about the idea of practicing poverty on the Tim Ferriss podcast. Tim says that, every so often, he’ll take a week to “practice poverty”, in...
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