Direct Selling: The Potential to Increase Your Bottom Line and Your Cupboards

Visualize this scene: I am sitting with my sister at a Tupperware rally (aka, a revival for consumerism). There are streamers, there is glitter all over the berber carpeting, and there are spray-tan women with microphones. As an early-twenty something still in college I don’t quite have my footing in life, nor do I know [...]

Furloughs Causing Bankruptcy: How Many Americans Live Too Close for Comfort?

This article has been featured as a Best of Money Carnival Winner for the week of August 30th. As a state employee, I am hearing all kinds of rumors about the budget for fiscal year 2011, which starts September 1, 2010. Whether or not there will be budget cuts is not the question on the [...]

I Will No Longer Sell Myself for $4.86 Per Hour

Imagine walking into an interview for that next big position you are hoping for. You are dressed for the occasion—some dockers, a nice blouse, perhaps a business suit that you spent a few dollars on at the dry cleaners after lugging it out from the recesses of your closet—and your resume is simply radiant from [...]

My Unemployment “Vacation” of 2008

Last year I found myself laid-off just weeks after my boyfriend lost his job. Being unemployed together at the start of summer certainly had its perks; that early June day when I came home with my belongings in a box and a few tears in my eyes, Paul decided we should head to Disneyworld on [...]