Welcome to another post in my Forgeative Experiences series, in which I bore entertain you, Dear Reader, with stories of events that have shaped me and my approach to money/investing. Your all-but-assured mocking of me may not be welcomed, but it’ll certainly be expected. No, nothing party Growing up, my dad and step-mother owned a…
Together and Apart(ment)
Until I scampered off to college, I mostly lived in single-family houses or townhouses. In college, I lived in multi-unit buildings, but when home for the summer, it was to a house I returned. After graduating college, I left my parents’ place/house for my own apartment in the city. That den of what I wish…
Time to Throw the Changeup
Dear Reader, this post is somewhat of a follow-up on my last post, America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad 2020. But in this post I’ll address an issue more in line with what I normally babble about. HEY! C’mon! Wake up! I see you nodding off! With regard to current events in…
America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad 2020
Today I’m detouring from writing about the subjects I started this blog to muse about. And as I now start my clickety-clacketying on the keyboard, I’m not sure whether this post will be super-depressing, mildly hopeful, or somewhere in between. I’ll be happy if it doesn’t put you to sleep. Low bar I set for…
A Hip Hop . . . to the Hip Hip Hop and You Don’t Stop
I am so, so . . . so ancient have been a working-stiff for a long while now. I’ve never been a serial job hopper but have had several employers. And within several jobs I saw leadership changes at my level and the organization-wide level that resulted in all but a new workplace/environment. So I’ve…
I’m Not Dead, But Am I Living?
This morning, like every morning since The So, So Long Ago I was born, I woke up. Super proud of myself, I promptly checked off item number one on my daily to-do list: stay alive. Yay me! #winners. So I can say with no small measure of certainty that I am, in fact, not dead. But…
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Part Two)
Welcome back, Dear Reader, to part two of my post on how to succeed in your job by means not necessarily part of conventional wisdom. In part one, I yammered on and on and on about discussed the following things almost anyone can pretty easily do that’ll increase your likelihood of success in the workplace:…
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Part One)
I am . . . not terribly bright. And my sense of impostor syndrome is considerable enough, even after almost five decades on this earth. It’s somewhat remarkable to me that I have managed to be gainfully employed/working for as long as I have been. Heck, it’s somewhat remarkable to me that my body remembers…
Would You Rather Be a Cat?
I’m a cat person. Not like this. Just that to the extent I like and have had animals as pets, it’s been all cats since the mid-1970s. I am not a dog person. I never have been, and I never will be. Sorry dog people. Especially those of you who just recoiled in horror. Being…
Making Fun of Lawyers: Spare Some Change?
Welcome to another edition of my Making Fun of Lawyers series. In this edition, Dear Reader, we’ll discuss attorneys’ and law firms’ well-deserved reputation for resisting change. Is this aversion true across the board? No. Is it a fair general assumption for most firms? From this blogger’s first- and second-hand knowledge, 100%. Why should any…
