Note: This topic is about discouraging spending lavishly on wedding celebrations, not discouraging having a decent wedding. Wedding celebrations, to many first time grooms and brides, is a once in a lifetime event which they wanted to be memorable. The…
Recently I met a person who was caught in a third party scam while trying to buy the crypto currency USDT and lost $15,000. It was 6 months worth of his savings. Among the people I know, including myself, there…
The Practicality of Owning A Car In Countries With Extensive Transport Network While the cars present some form of convenience, during peak hours in those busy cities, the jam is such that often times taking a train is faster. Furthermore…
Owning a car seems to be a natural thing to do once your basic needs are fulfilled. In fact, car ownership is often tied with social status. More than once I have a few subordinates at work who asked me…
In this topic we will only talk about the financial considerations of making a career in the private or public sector. In the last post we talked about a private sector job having a higher starting salary, perhaps in the…
The moment we graduate from school, or even before we graduate, we are faced with one question: What should I work as? Jobs can be widely classified into 2 categories – public sector jobs (Government jobs) or private sector jobs.…
Every month, we get our salary and tell ourselves we will need to save up. Yet at the end of every month, we realise that we have not saved as much as we would like, if we even managed to…
Following the posts on doing business and investments, this last post of the series will touch on the safest and most traditional method of them all – exchanging labour for money. In short, working. After your full time day job,…
If you are not cut out to run a small business, the next logical option to consider, although definitely not the only option left, is investments and trading. But that being said, the financial markets is a zero sum game.…
In our last post I talked about why we should go for additional income in our path towards financial freedom. I listed out 4 ways, of which while one is not limited to only one of them, the advice is…