A Rock Solid Personal Finance System
A transition from pharma requires more than just a conversation about replacing a car allowance and a cellphone. Getting your personal finances under control is critical so you can focus on the opportunities that lie ahead, and not on the numbers dwindling out of your bank account!
We thought it would be helpful to put together this section on some recent thinking, tools and resources from the world of personal finance that may help you to stretch a dollar and get your finances in order as you prepare to start fresh. Read more
Your Finance Strategy: Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader?
April 19, 2009 by pharma · 2 Comments
It’s amazing how much adults can make simple concepts complex. Take this blog post for example. When we started writing this section, we began scouring the Internet for the latest in personal finance tips, tricks, techniques, tools, training, and thinking on the latest and greatest personal finance strategies.
After dozens of starts and stops along the way, it turns out everything we really wanted to say was already written in crayon by Jenna Fink (a 4th grader from Frisco, TX).
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Analyze Your Finances
April 19, 2009 by pharma · 2 Comments
If it’s true that you can’t manage what you can’t measure, then most of us aren’t doing a very good job of managing our money.
(Coming from an industry that gave us car, gas, phone, and meal allowances probably hasn’t helped our ability to analyze our spending habits, either.)
As some of us prepare to leave the perks behind, there are two free services that we wanted to highlight that can help you analyze and optimize your finances. Read more
Automate Your Finances
We had already mentioned that our first financial wake up call came from a 4th grader, but this next one comes from NY Times Bestselling Author Ramit Sethi, financial blogger and author of a new book called, “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”.
His book is great, and his blog is filled with a ton of valuable information, but the concept that really hit home for us was his discussion on willpower, and how it just doesn’t work for most of us. Read more
