Great story, Hal :) My own fairly youthful advice is to set 5, 10, and 15/20-year goals, and keep checking in with them and making adjustments as needed. Also, *do* buy in to the whole "start your retirement fund early" line -- if nothing else, you can cash it out in an emergency or when you decide to put everything in storage and trot the globe for a spell. The various retirement fund management techniques are great, as for management of them and taxes... if you are too uneasy about having that money "locked away", first realize that it *should* be made safe from even yourself, and then also consider just using a spare account that is easy, but not *too* easy, to get to. ING Direct and some other mostly-virtual banks have great savings rates, no minimums and no fees. Disclaimer: I am NOT a fi-serv expert! Damn all you kids makin more than me!! :)
cheerio, ben PS - oh, and get out of debt, esp. plastique; and buy a house and/or land! On 2/28/07, Hal Pomeranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I'm not good at kissing ass, so I tended to just > ignore people and get the job done, and eventually they come around (it > really helps if you have a supportive supervisor). Yes and yes. It's hard not to have a chip on your shoulder when you feel like you're at least as good as everybody else but nobody gives you any credit because you're a youngster to them. I approached a lot of assignments early in my career with an attitude of doing the job just to show everybody else up. Didn't win me a lot of friends, but people did figure out I was technically competant at least. And bless my first couple of supervisors for putting up with me and covering my ass when necessary. At my first job I got in a shouting match with a manager in another organization-- after he called my boss to ream her out about my behavior all she said to me was, "Hal, you can't talk to other managers like you do to me." I could've kissed her. --Hal _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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