Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Times, They Are A Changin'... and so is this blog.

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NOTE: The text of this article was originally set to publish September 30 th , but I couldn't publicly announce a few things until afte...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

From the Trenches: The Unemployment Office and Finding Direction.

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Getting a letter from the Department of Employment Security is never fun. They don't write you ever to tell you “Everything's going...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Collection Agencies: Predatory, Unethical and Often Illegal Practices Pursuing Money We Don't Have.

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This afternoon, I got a painful reminder of the lengths unscrupulous debt collectors will go to attempt to squeeze blood from a stone, wheth...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Virtual Currencies – From WoW Gold to Bitcoin, with a stop in Second Life.

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It is difficult to talk about currency in any form these days without the whole topic getting muddled and mired into politics. The economic...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Thinking Outside the Maze – A Rat's Perspective on the Race.

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When you are out of work for more than a few weeks, thinking about the system and its implicit promise of a stable place in society in excha...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Jumping Through Hoops – Unemployment Benefits

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Today before sitting down to write, I wanted to check on the status of my accounts. Before joining the ranks of the unemployed, I suppose m...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Can We Please Stop Confusing Unemployment With Welfare?

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I'm not going to get political here. Believe what you want about welfare, its role in society, etc. That's not what I want to talk...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Once More, From the Top

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Getting my head on straight was harder than I thought it'd be. When I was called into the office, it was a surprise. I had no idea that...
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