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THE CAREER CHANGE FINANCIAL PLANNERBreak Away Without Going Broke (SM) |
Photo by Sharon Harvell Could it be that the long-awaited bluer skies are finally returning? The stock market, holiday spending, and other economic indicators are up. Most welcome of all perhaps, according to the latest report, unemployment is down. If you are one of the lucky beneficiaries of this nascent uptick in hiring, congratulations! Before you get too [...]
If you’re Beta testing a career change that involves relocation, use the Cost-of-Living Wizard on Salary.com to help you estimate the impact on your financial plan. Just plug in your current salary, current work and home locations, and the new locations, to see usable stats on how much you’ll have to earn to maintain your standard of living [...]
Analogy junkie that I am, I’ve drawn comparisons between financial planning and bike racing, gardening, cross-country skiing, surviving in the wild, organizing, high school, and personal training. So it’s surprising that I’ve never drawn on my pre-career change experiences as a software product manager when writing about personal finance — especially since I see parallels between the [...]
Dreaming of reinventing your professional self? Does that dream include a cut in pay? Yeah, right! But, for many, it may be the reality, at least temporarily. So how do you make your dream career happen anyway?? Career expert Randi Bussin and I teamed up on this article to provide some answers to just that question. The [...]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes… Every year, trees do it beautifully. For them, change comes at little or no cost. The same is true for some lucky career changers, who happen to want a change that doesn’t require a major investment in additional education or business start-up costs, a big pay cut, a period of under- or unemployment, or [...]
In case you missed my recent ten timely tips newsletter… a special follow-up to career changers using 529 savings to cover back-to-school expenses: computer technology, related equipment and/or related services such as Internet access now count as qualified expenses. i.e. You can use tax-free dollars distributed from 529 plans to pay for these items. The [...]
