I recently wrote up a post about how your credit score can run your life – from getting a loan to landing a job. Far too often I interview people who have some pretty horrendous scores, and I mean bad. Like, I didn’t even know credit scores could be that low kind of bad. Granted, [...] Read more »
10 Lessons Learned from Two Years of Freelancing
It’s been two years since I graduated from college. That’s two years since running around Europe to “find myself”. It’s also been two years since I started freelancing as a means to make extra money. Last year, I wrote a post about the 20 lessons I had learned from freelancing for a year. It was [...] Read more »
GMW Monthly Report: June 2012
One of the reasons I started Grad Meets World in November 2010 was to hold myself accountable while I created my post-grad life. For instance, I would publicly announce that I was going to make a budget and then write a later post with the update. This time around I figured it would be a [...] Read more »
7 Lessons from a Rookie Entrepreneur
I’m very excited this week to bring you guys a guest post from the fabulous Lindsay Hunt! Lindsay is one of my first blogger buddies and has certainly been an inspiration when it comes to pursuing entrepreneurship. Not only was she gracious enough to allow me to interview her, I also used her consulting and [...] Read more »
3 Ways Your Blog Can Make You Money Without Being Sleazy
One of the most popular questions I get asked by readers is how I use this blog as an extra source of income. Now, before I jump into that I would like to clarify one thing: blogging is not a good way to make a ton of money – at least not for a long [...] Read more »
5 Ways Your Credit Score Runs Your Life
There more notion of terms like “credit scores” seems to yield one of two reactions from people: 1. Putting people to sleep. 2. Images of impending doom with the FreeCreditReport.com guy singing in the background. I’m here to tell you to snap out of it! Knowing about your credit score is probably one of [...] Read more »
5 Steps to Getting Your Finances In Order After College
It’s that time of year again! Recent grads are pounding the pavement and making moves. I should know, we keep seeing them at my day job. While things are definitely looking up for the class of 2012 there’s still something we all have to learn at some point – getting your money in shape. Yes, [...] Read more »
Everything is Progress: How to Be Happy Where You Are
This is probably one of the more personal video blogs I’ve recorded – simply because it shows that I’m right there in the trenches with you guys. I’m still figuring out my finances on a daily basis. I’m still paving the way for my career. I’m still building the side hustling. I’m still clueless about [...] Read more »
Summer Essentials – Low Cost Fun in the Sun
Living in Miami I’ve come to love two things: the first naturally being the sun – if it gets below 70 degrees I don’t function very well. The second is budgeting, simply because the cost of living is pretty ridiculous in South Florida. So, when summer time comes around I try to find ways to [...] Read more »
How Poor Health Can Cost You A Lot of Money
Subscribe to GMW on YouTube! It’s been a while since I’ve done a health related post on the blog. Actually, if we want to get technical, I think the last time I mentioned health and fitness was when I interviewed Diana from Unleash Your Sexy. So it’s high time I bring up living a healthy [...] Read more »