I’m pissed off.
See, I live by a shopping center that has a Safeway, Trader Joe’s, and Wal-Mart. The last two times I’ve gone shopping there, I’ve been approached by Indian men who were seemingly very nice and struck up a conversation with me. (Some background: For a long time, there weren’t many Indians in the [...]
Sri writes:
How does one know that he/she is doing great in terms of savings? Is there a magic number?
For example:
Age 35, single Savings: > US$100K = great
Age 35, single Savings: > US$200K = outstanding
Age 25, married, savings <10K = poor
My response to him:
Nope, no magic number. There are guidelines and comparisons like this and [...]
Today’s Friday Entrepreneur is Sarah Deutsch, who’s started a personal-assistant company called Pinkleberry Services. I love this: If you occasionally need someone to help with “shopping, errands, courier, house-sitting, package pick-up,” or even office functions, she can help. I always joke that I need a personal assistant, but with this service, you don’t have to [...]
Today I want to take a minute to write about my friend Jim. Here’s a guy who embodies what I talk about on this site: getting rich by identifying your priorities, being frugal on things you don’t care about and spending on the things you do, taking entrepreneurial risks, and realizing the difference between being [...]
A lot of readers have asked for a way to connect to other iwillteachyoutoberich readers, so here goes one try. My friend Ryan writes:
I’m traveling to LA & San Diego next week to check it out (considering moving, changing jobs). I’ve realized consulting is really not for me…
So, I’m wondering if you have any [...]
I’m surprised. With all the news we’ve been getting lately about getting out and voting, I haven’t seen one piece of information about where I’m supposed to vote beyond the one piece of mail I got about 6 weeks ago. Who knows how many people lost that sample ballot and went online to find the [...]