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Sunday, April 6th, 2008I’ve updated my little weight tracker on the right. I’ve lost 4 lbs over the past month. How about that! The funny thing is, I’ve been too busy to even think about my weight. And I’ve been too busy to get up and buy my afternoon sweets. About 2 weeks […]
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A Long Day
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Things haven’t slowed down yet for me at work. I put in 10 hours Saturday and 6 hours Sunday, and didn’t leave the office until 9pm last night & tonight. Ah, the life of an employee of an investment bank. But I do see the light at the end of the tunnel. […]
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Busy Week
Friday, March 28th, 2008Finally it’s Friday, and I’m done with another week of work. This week has been by far the most intense of my 8 years at my company. We’re having some technology infrastructure problems due to the layoffs a month ago, and I’ve been responsible for cleaning up a couple serious messes. Just […]
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Crazy Week on Wall Street
Sunday, March 16th, 2008It’s been one of the craziest weeks at work that I can remember: first, Elliot Spitzer resigning and then Bear Stearns imploding. While none of this affects my job directly, I work in Equity Research and am in the middle of a lot of information flows, and am around a lot of people […]
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Selling Books for Extra Income
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008My regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been busier than usual with my day job. And, as I wrote a few days ago, I’ve been implementing an idea I had for selling books on the internet.
I’ve written about how I occasionally find books on the street that […]
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Checking In
Monday, February 25th, 2008The last week has been crazy. I posted a couple weeks ago that several of my co-workers were laid off. Well, their projects were dumped on me. I’ll delegate them onto other teams, but first I have to understand them, and this has required a LOT of work.
I’ve also been implementing an […]
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Uncertainty
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I’ve written about some of the financial issues in my relationship, but things are also getting dicey at work. There have been a lot of closed door meetings over the past week, and I can tell that the managers of my team are under a great deal of stress. I think cuts […]
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Earning Extra Income
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008A few days ago I wrote a post called Pay Off Debt, or Build Up Savings (sounds like the title of a task on the Amazing Race). Single Mom in Debt from The Quest to Become Debt Free responded to my comment asking if I had considered part time work or consulting. I […]
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Yearly Bonus
Sunday, January 6th, 2008I just checked my checking account balance and saw that my yearly bonus came in via direct deposit yesterday. And in one fell swoop my net worth just about doubled. Feels good! However I was not expecting taxes to eat up such a big chunk of it. Seems like a significantly […]
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Wrapping Things Up before Vacation
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007I’m in one of those very busy periods at work. I’m taking two weeks off starting Friday and have a hell of a lot to do if I want to leave things in good shape.
I got my bonus confirmed yesterday. It won’t be quite as much as I had been hoping, but […]
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