Who likes getting something for nothing? I’ve seen SwagBucks mentioned around the blogosphere a few times, but I had never checked it out til this week, and I must say, I’m hooked. What is SwagBucks? It’s a search engine, powered by Google and Ask.com, but you can win SwagBucks for searching. Great, you think. …
I’ve got two things to add to my goals for 2009. After looking at my taxes, it turns out I contributed much less to charity than I thought. Of course, this doesn’t account for cash dropped in a bell ringer’s bucket at the holidays or handed to someone begging on the street. I want to …
While in law school, I had a professor stress to us the importance of creating a CYA file. CYA stands for Cover Your A**. The purpose of this file is to document your work so that if something goes wrong, no one can place blame on you for something that isn’t your fault. Of course, …
I think everyone is experiencing a bit of work-related stress because of the current state of the U.S. economy. I work for the government, so we’re not as prone to layoffs, which is nice, but we do have a number of people in temporary positions, and as people move on to other jobs, we aren’t …
I have a car. I bought it in the summer of 2004, and I own it outright. I can’t say that it gets a whole lot of use though. When I bought it, I was living in the midwest, going to law school and living in a city with not so great public transportation. Plus …