I’ve given some thoughts to tipping as of late, since taking my fiancee out to dinner to celebrate my new (if less than ideal) job raised an obvious tipping situation. It’s always a bit of a conundrum; how much do you tip? Do you tip fifteen percent, ten percent, twenty, or some other value? How […]
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Ah, the FairTax. It seems I just can’t get away from writing about it in one form or another. If you’ve never heard of it, I’ve already covered many of the most salient points when I first wrote about it. Lately, I’ve gotten more jaded about the whole concept, and wrote about several of the
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There is a growing consensus here in the United States that we need to get our budget in order, and soon. The deficit is rising higher and higher, the national debt is steadily building, and there’s not much agreement on what to do. Rather, there’s not much political will to do what most people readily
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If you’re looking for a job, as I am, one thing you’ve probably heard again and again is the importance of networking, that is, using friends, family and other contacts to find another job. It’s apparently a rather popular method; about 70% of jobs are found through some form of networking, as noted by the
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I’ve been thinking quite a bit about perception and reality. Particularly, if being successful at something causes you to believe that it’s easier to do than it actually is, or that ‘anyone can do it’. If you make yourself a success at something, no matter what it is, do you start to think that other
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