Career Services Coupons

One of the most overlooked areas of personal finance is career planning. Career planning is absolutely essential to the personal finance arena because it is the area that provides you with the bulk of your income. There was a time that you would get a job and keep it for your entire working life. This is no longer the case. With companies laying off left and right, you need to do everything possible to protect your income.

Here are a few strategies that you can take to be proactive in the event of a layoff. Read More …

Facebook, Inc, recently launched a brand-new ad format, called a "Featured Story," which dumps paid content - rather than updates from Great Aunt Lynn about her recent biopsy or one of those internet memes - squarely into our news feeds. Worse, these paid advertisements (a.k.a. "news feed) shows the actions of the Facebook users friends and these ads are front-and-center on our Facebook news feed.

Great. More ads.

I've been mildly annoyed by the ads (read: "Sponsored Stories") on the sidebar of Facebook, but have been able to tune them out. Now, when I'm blearily checking to see if I've gotten any response to my "Which Disney Princess Are You?" post, I'm bound to accidentally click a Featured Story.

You know what? I'm sick of ads.

Because I have to sell my firstborn son in order to see a movie these days, I do it perhaps twice a year. Read More …

I know a ton of people who'd like to abandon their pricey home phone service, but still want the equivalent of a landline for convenience, emergencies--and the occasional marathon chat session (one that won't eat into their mobile minutes or drain their cell phone's battery). Read More …