Why I care about financial literacy and why you should too
Good morning! Today I have teamed up with a few other blogs around Shannon from The Heavy Purse to help promote Financial Literacy Month. What is financial literacy? According to Wikipedia,...
View ArticleLittle house in Guatemala, stormy edition
Because I am so organized (/sarcasm), I already had my post lined up with the recap of the past two weeks, but on Friday night we were hit by a big storm. It had been a really hot and heavy week, the...
View Article7 Ways to Make Money in College
Morning! Today I have a guest post from Kevin who blogs at Graduating From Debt, enjoy! courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net My name is Kevin Watts and I am the creator of Graduating from Debt. I was...
View ArticleStay at home vs working mum: Factoring all the costs
Making her smile with a yoghurt mustache, priceless. I had an interesting talk with my sister last time I visited, about why she would go back to work now that she has my adorable niece. My sister...
View ArticleWorking abroad within your field of study
Since I graduated business school back in 2003 (how’s that for feeling old!), I have never held a job in France. I have worked legally in jobs loosely related to my administration degree in Guatemala,...
View ArticleBlame it on the economy
Once thing that makes me cringe is people talking about how times are tough, and how hard it is to get a job. How tough was 1929? I never heard my grandparents saying “times were tough, we couldn’t...
View ArticleLittle house in Guatemala, week 1
Happy Monday everyone! Time to start a weekly update about the Guatemalan land, don’t you think? I have been so busy last week, with the move, getting settled, no light… that I had little time to...
View ArticleEarn money while traveling? (part 2)
This post is continued from last week’s post No income while traveling? No problem! as a small series answering a reader’s question about how I manage my income while traveling the world. I spent...
View ArticleCan cheap labor make you lazy?
Before I moved to Guatemala, I was looking at houses in the South of France. For the same price, I would have gotten a run down house, that I would have had to fix myself. There I was, daydreaming...
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