Archive for July, 2005

Buying Your First Car

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

Mike posted his response to one of the questions raised in “Ask the Wealthy Bloggers” (post your own if you have any):

What’s your advice for students looking for new(er) cars? Tastes change, I don’t think I want to try to re-sell a car in a year or two. Plus, is there a good way to [...]

Ask the Wealthy Bloggers - Buying a Car

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

At the request of one of our readers, we created a Ask the Wealthy Bloggers post, soliciting questions that we could set about answering, hopefully with our readers adding their two cents in the comments. Today I thought I would tackle the first of the questions we received:
What’s your advice for students looking for new(er) [...]

Interview with Stock Competition Winner

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

I sat down earlier today with winnerinwashington17, the winner of our recent stock competition (he beat my poor butt by more than 400,000$).

How do you feel after your victory?
After a couple of stress-free weeks into the competition, I had to battle it out with the runner-up in the final week of the competition. Now, [...]

How I Got My Dream Job

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

In light of Jeremy’s post on moving into his dream job, I thought I would reprint an article from my personal site on how I got into my dream job.
I have a secret to share with you: I am working in my dream job. I am working for a company I love (MySQL), doing something [...]

Moving to Your Dream Job

Monday, July 4th, 2005

12 months ago I was stuck in something which was decidedly not my dream job. It wasn’t a bad job, so much as not the one I wanted. At all. Even a little bit.

So, 10 months ago I decided to change some things. My first step was to set a goal in terms of when [...]

Welcome BusinessWeek Readers

Friday, July 1st, 2005

I was perusing our site statistics when I discovered that:

OK, that was a little scary, but it reflects the sheer maniacal joy at discovering were were linked by BusinessWeek magazine (At least online).

So, BusinessWeek readers, welcome. One of my favorite resources is our Financial Blog Aggregator, which collects posts from various personal finance related blogs [...]

Stock Competition Winners

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Well, the first ever Wealthy Blogger stock competition was a lot of fun. I hadn’t done stock market investing in quite some time, and I had a LOT of fun. Thank you to everyone who participated.
Here are the final rankings.
Rank Username Net Worth % Return # Trans
1 Winnerinwashington17 $948,291.90 89.66 % 18
2 pfblueprint $935,429.97 87.09 [...]