Career

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2 min read Career General

I got a promotion!!

Well I have only been at my new employer for just barely 5 months, but yesterday I got called into the CFO’s office and was told that I would be getting a promotion and a 10% raise. My previous …

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3 min read Career Frugality

Clothes as an investment??

Today I went clothes shopping. I bought a lot of new clothes. In fact I spent more money on clothes today than I probably have in the last seven years combined. Now to put that in perspective I can …

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1 min read Career General

My first day at new job

Well today is my first day at my new employer. It was easy finding jobs, but is was difficult deciding which job was the best for me (as you can tell if you’ve followed my blog this month). …

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3 min read Career General

I resigned

Well I went into my HR department yesterday and asked them if I had ever signed a non-compete agreement. She looked through my file and said yes you signed this. I got a copy of what she gave me and …

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3 min read Career General

Job Dilema - Update 2

Sorry for spending too much time on my job search, but I think this will be of value to me down the road to evaluate this decision and well it very much effects my financial situation and retirement …

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5 min read Career General

Job Dilema - Update

Well I kind of stopped updating my job dilemma string of posts right now because I really didn’t want to make anything more overwhelming than it already is as far as companies, but figured …

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2 min read Career General

Job Dilema - Company 4 Overview

Type of Company : Energy Company My Role : Part of development team, but would have a good say in what we are doing. Would actually being using some fairly outdated technologies for the most part with …

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2 min read Career General

Job Dilema - Company 3 Overview

Type of Company - Consulting Company My Role - Consultant, would vary from project to project Career Advancement - Not really room to move up their corp ladder as it is pretty flat, Administrative and …

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2 min read Career General

Job Dilema - Company 2 Overview

Type of Company - Smaller company that develops software for 401ks, pensions, and payroll My Role - I would be part of a growing development team. Top notch all the way around, would be using latest …

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3 min read Career General

Job Dilema - Company 1 Overview

Type of Company - Big Health insurance company My Role - I would be the top person for a department of 15 people - in fact I would be by FAR the most technically savvy person in this department. So I …

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