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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 10 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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Top 10 Reasons Not To Go To Graduate School

October 29, 2009 · 12 comments

in education, employment income, grad school, lifestyle design

We hear enough about reasons why it might be good to do a graduate degree.  Heck, we don’t even need to hear the reasons anymore because they are so ingrained in the discourse of college and early career-building phases themselves.
But how often do you see meetings, books, or announcements about the reasons you should not [...]

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Reasons You Should Get Started Investing While Still A Graduate Student

September 24, 2009 · 6 comments

in education, financial planning, grad school, investing, money decisions, students, time in the market, wealthbuilding

Dear Graduate Student, have you started your retirement savings plans yet?  Do you have a portfolio of growth stocks and ETFs in place yet?  Do you have a plan in place to contribute to these investment savings regularly?  If so, perfect.  Then you should probably be reading up on whether to invest in gold bullion [...]

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Reasons You Will Need Extra Cash For Finishing Your Master’s or PhD Thesis

September 22, 2009 · 1 comment

in education, emergencies, emergency fund, financial planning, grad school, savings, students

Planning your graduate career, or just looking ahead to being on the home stretch and getting that thesis out of the way? Don’t just count on the funding you might get from your program or teaching/research assignment. Writing a thesis is the perfect situation for which you should have a solid emergency fund in place.
Your [...]

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How Much It Costs to Apply To Graduate School

September 21, 2009 · 6 comments

in education, financial planning, grad school, money decisions, spending, students, universities

My advice: don’t overlook the little costs involved in furthering your education.  Applying to grad school is one of them.  We focus on the big ticket costs like tuition and accommodation, but this is one that sneaks in the back door and should be part of your budget.
The largest factor determining how much you will [...]

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International Students: Things You Should Know About Getting Your Visa for Study in the U.S.

September 2, 2009 · 2 comments

in education, students, travel, universities

International students, it’s that time of year again.  Although statistics show that applications from international students for U.S. universities are down considerably compared to last year, there will still be a significant number of you enrolling this fall.  But in order to get things started at your chosen college, you will need to enter the [...]

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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life – by Neil Strauss (Review)

June 25, 2009 · 13 comments

in achievement, education, emergencies, self-protection, skills, survival, wealth protection

This book might indeed save your life.
Survival schools.  Second passports.  Urban Escape and Evasion courses.  CERT training.  Bugging out.  How to escape from attack dogs.  Offshore asset protection.  Perpetual traveling.  Using one’s credit card as a knife.  Killing and skinning your own goat.  These are just some of the survivalist, “how-to-be-prepared-for-anything” topics covered in Neil [...]

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