The West Egger

Young People Looking Financially Forward

Salaries, Not so Secret Anymore

Overall, I think that knowing salary information can do more good than harm. I have found that Glassdoor.com does an excellent job of sharing real employee salaries while keeping the employees anonymous. To me, it achieves the goal of knowing this valuable information without invading privacy.

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Still have Gift Cards from Last Year?

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I figured this is a unique holiday season compared to previous years. I was thinking about the likelihood of people choosing to re-gift unused gift cards from last year and risks involved.  The re-gifting episode on Seinfeld was funny for a…

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The Power to Predict Airfares

As the holiday season approaches, I thought this would be a great time to share the benefits of my favorite airfare tracking site. Last spring, MIcrosoft Corp bought out Farecast.com, a site that monitors airfares to domestic and…

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Thought about an Emergency Fund?

At the beginning of September, the unemployment numbers for August were released. The number of people in the nation that were unemployed and actively seeking work was 6.1% up from 5.7% in the previous month. This level hasn’t been reached…

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Path to the Green Light

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the title character, Jay Gatsby, lived in an area known as West Egg. He, like his neighbors, was considered ‘new money’ and worked extremely hard to achieve the riches of life. Across…

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