When you enter a new workplace for the very first time, you quickly get a sense of what life will be like for you there. As you meet your new coworkers, you’ll quickly develop a feel for what the general tone or atmosphere of your work environment is like. Having annoying co-workers, tedious a…
Investing in real estate used to be something of an unofficial national pastime. When the property market experienced year after year of double-digit growth in prices, people all across the country (and even across the world) were snatching up properties left and right, hoping to turn a quick profit…
It’s not easy being a business owner. Overwork and burnout are two especially common problems with entrepreneurs, and it’s not hard to see why. One survey conducted revealed that more than half of the business owners surveyed worked at least 50 hours a week. About a quarter worked over …
You will commonly hear this refrain from successful business owners: nobody ever got rich working for somebody else. A cursory glance at the Forbes 400 gives credence to this statement; the list overwhelmingly comprises of entrepreneurs and business owners. When you give it some thought, it makes se…
The rate of college enrollment is higher than ever before: nearly seven in ten high school graduates enroll in an institution of higher learning after graduating, according to the US Department of Education. This correlates very tightly with the ever-increasing debt load students assume to get their…
Somebody always seems to know more than you do when it comes to investing your money. Expressing even the slightest interest in doing so will cause you to receive a whole bunch of unsolicited advice by people who are sure that they know what’s going to be The Next Big ThingTM. Logic would reve…
It’s a common trope in society: the wealthier you are, the less work people think you do. You see so many images of wealthy people living a jet setting lifestyle, driving expensive cars, and taking vacations in exotic locales that it’s easy to forget all the hard work that went to gettin…
If you hear of an individual who is described as wealthy, what comes to mind? Do you think of somebody who owns lots of expensive vehicles and homes? Does that person live a care-free lifestyle? Do you see them as honest, or as shady and unscrupulous? All of these stereotypes carry a little truth to…
A job that is completely stress-free doesn’t exist. With deadlines to meet, people to please, standards to uphold, and new markets to enter, your job will always present challenges and circumstances that force you out of a state of perpetual complacency. Stress shouldn’t necessarily be p…
Does Company Culture Matter? When you begin the search for a new job, you’ll typically look for certain qualities: salary, benefits, location, and so forth. Salary is perhaps the most dominant of these, as many people will commonly pass over or apply for a job simply based on what that number …