Career

A Pay Cut Or Paving Your Way To Paradise?

Maybe you’re a creative, who wants to work at your art full-time. Maybe you want to spend more time with your family. Is cutting down on hours or leaving full-time work a path to financial insecurity or a viable option?

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How Part Time Jobs Can Save You Money

Part time jobs are a great way to survive, save extra money or generally get back into the workforce. We look at how you cannot underestimate the power of working part time when saving money.

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Doing What You Love And Making It Pay (Big Time!)

We focus a lot on saving money at Savings Guide. Today we look at ways to get paid money to do what you love. The Australian dream isn’t it?

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The Financial Cost Of Overworking Yourself

It’s the first couple of weeks of December and you’re starting to feel the strain of a year of full-time work. Suddenly a week of holidays is within grasp, and you’re basically salivating for it. At this point of the year, it’s easy to feel burnt out and like all you need is a good [...]

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Financial stress in the workplace & tips to avoid

Financial stress is not an uncommon phenomenon. Whether it’s your credit card debt, mortgage, the state of your retirement account or how you are going to afford Christmas presents this year, there are a lot of financial triggers that can affect you. And they, in turn, affect your work. Cindy Krishner Goodman, with the Kansas [...]

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Starting a small business – the million dollar successes!

Rags to riches stories are sometimes all that sustain me. Listening to the tightened-belt, day-by-day attitudes espoused by people who did it right and made it big, helps me when I’m confronting a new pair of delightful peep-toe blue shoes and trying to walk away. Of course, all fairytales are exceptions, not the rule. Yet, [...]

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