What’s your job worth?
The answer may surprise you A thought came to me a few weeks ago. I was daydreaming and I started thinking about what my salary was worth to me. I’ve been an English teacher for seventeen years now, eight of them full-time at my current university job. I’ve worked hard, changed jobs when opportunities came […]
Reader Profile: RJC
The business owner I’m really pleased to publish our first reader profile of 2017 today, courtesy of RJC, an entrepreneur recently arrived in Japan. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself I am an expat from the USA. I have lived in Costa Rica and Thailand previously and decided to move to Japan just […]
Review: Dominion Card Game
Marginally relevant to personal finance? A bit of a tangent today. I love board games, wargames, card games, strategy games, so for me they provide incredible value for money. I find board games more valuable than computer games because they have a tactile and social element that computer games lack (plus I spend far too […]
Living in the Present or Living in the Future
Which one do you do, boy? Today we’ll be exploring a concept that lies at the heart of personal finance: do you live in the present or in the future? I suspect everyone is somewhere on the line that rnns from live exclusively in the present to live exclusively in the future, but very few […]
2017
What are you going to do with the next 364 days? Every year ends with an annual review, and starts with a plan. I usually spend a couple of days doing a personal review and plan, but I’m also going to do one for RetireJapan this year. So as we tentatively move into 2017 (a […]