Here we have the second installment of GMW’s Gen Y Exposed Series! If you would like to contribute please send an email to abella.amanda@gmail.com Hi everyone, I’m Kari. I’m a 20 year old college student living in a small-ish Canadian city with my family. I’m a self-proclaimed geek with an energetic and outgoing personality. I [...] Read more »
10 Reasons You Should Collaborate With Others and an Awesome Book Giveaway!
I have big news. I mean really big. So big that I’m afraid I’m going to jinx it if I say anything. Screw it. Here goes. I have co-founded a writing agency with my partner in crime Caroline Pollock and we’re about to rock the shit out of the internet. We have spent the last [...] Read more »
5 Career Tips for Gen Y
I have mentioned before how our generation has been dealt quite the hand of cards. Unemployment is up, benefits are down, and money isn’t flowing like it used to. By the same token, we have several advantages that our predecessors didn’t: time, passion, guts, and the internet. Time and time again I come across Gen-Yers [...] Read more »
The Real Post Grad: 3 Steps for Setting Up a Financial Savings Goal
Below is an excerpt I wrote for The Real Post Grad. If you haven’t checked out their site yet, you’re seriously missing out on some awesome post grad adventures. A big thanks to Allison and Shikole for allowing me to guest post for them! 3 Steps for Setting up a Financial Savings Goal As a [...] Read more »
The Smart College Grad: 5 Ways to Make Extra Money in Your 20s
The Bad News Whether we like it or not, we have to come to terms with the fact that our generation is being faced with multi-faceted financial problems. We are being forced to tackle a horrible job market, non-paying internships have replaced entry level jobs, entry level jobs don’t pay enough to meet our mounting [...] Read more »
2011 Money Goals for Gen Y
In preparation for today’s post I made a simple Google search for “Gen Y Money”. You know, to get a feel for what people are writing about us. Boy, are we a popular topic of discussion! Headlines like Why Gen Y is Broke, Why Gen Y Might Never Retire, and Gen Y’s Money Woes are [...] Read more »
7 Tips for Starting Your Own Freelance Business
I received an email from Mahriana over at the Unclammed Black Pearl telling me that she wants to start her own freelance green home staging business (Congrats, girl!). She then asked me for some advice on how to run a freelance business and I immediately wrote a very long email with some things I have [...] Read more »
Taking the Red Pill: 5 Steps for Taking Control of Your Finances
This is a guest post from a fabulous 20-something finance blogger who writes under the name Money Rabbit. Money Rabbit is a 23 year old personal finance blogger currently living in Toronto, Ontario. She likes investing, saving for travel, and long walks on the beach. MoneyRabbit.ca was started as a form of cataloguing her journey [...] Read more »
The Book Every Freelancer, Part-Timer, and the Self Employed Individual Should Read
When I started freelance writing a few months ago I had no idea what I was doing. The only thing I had was my laptop and the written word. Eventually I started to get the hang of things like managing my time, how to do research quickly and efficiently, and figuring out which websites actually [...] Read more »
Managing Your Finances 101, a job update, and more free templates
Image via mynameisharsha A couple of days ago I told you all about how I was going to try The Simple Dollar’s 31 Days to Fix Your Finances. Well I suppose it is about time I give you all an update, considering I have literally spent 3 days just trying to figure out what my [...] Read more »
