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As I’ve discussed before, I’m not entirely happy with my job.  I’m not doing the work I was hired to do, I often feel like what I do is a complete waste of my law degree, and I don’t exactly see eye-to-eye with management.  For a while, I was job hunting pretty steadily.

Not so much [...]

Checking out my retirement accounts

Since receiving my raise, I’ve been pondering increasing my contributions into my TSP.  I was chatting with a co-worker about this, and she commented that she puts in the max.  I’m impressed, but I’m not sure that’s the plan for me.  Right now, I want to keep setting aside money for a house, though I [...]

Oops.

Remember when I posted that I was going to start investing in stocks?

Well I did it.  I just didn’t mean to.

I did a bunch of research on stocks and picked out one to start with (I decided to do the investing in chunks – choose one stock, buy it, do more research, choose another stock, [...]

2009 Goal Update

Well, it’s not quite mid-year, but I thought I would do a quick check at my progress on my 2009 goals.

1.  Increase savings by 10%.

I’m measuring this in cash accounts and CDs, because basing my goals on the market was a little too uncertain.  As of right now, I’m doing really well on this one.  [...]

A brief roundup

I’ve got days and days worth of blog entries to get through, but I wanted to post a quick roundup of Pecuniary Associates sites.  Next week’s roundup should be huge.

A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding the Pros & Cons of Investing Into a Roth IRA – I just opened a Roth IRA in 2007, and had [...]