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Help Your Child Earn and Learn Through College Years

Your Deetsieness — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:02:42 +0000

Saving for your child’s college becomes a priority but it may not be as important as saving for your own retirement. Why? Because your children will have more sources of money to pay for tuition fees in college and ample opportunities to earn and save unveils as they go though the schooling. The sooner you start stashing cash, the better. The little that you have right now will soon grow if you give them enough time to.

Tuition costs rise faster than inflation and stocks are best way to build enough savings in the long term. But you don’t have to save the entire cost of four years of college. Government and private grants and loans can bridge the gap between your savings and tuition bills.

Investing for college comes simple, too with mutual funds which takes charge in watching money market daily.

What’s important is that your child should learn to appreciate the value of earning bucks while studying. Students who earn their own pocket learn to budget and are forced to learn time management skills necessary for the rest of their lives.

Countless ways await the students who want to finish a degree. For one, they can buy cheap college textbooks. Doing so help them save extras. As text books play a great part in college and buying new ones can drain the pocket, renting text books becomes more practical.

It’s a Flat World After All

Your Deetsieness — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:54:31 +0000

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

As I was studying Internet Marketing, online visibility and eCommerce, I couldn’t agree more with Thomas Friedman’s view of globalization. The world is now a leveled playing field because of technology. The Internet, specifically, enabled some stay-at-home moms to earn as much as a top rank CEO would in year. Browsing through the web, you will find websites of small time sellers looking as professional as the big guys. Both attracting customers with unlimited markets. Communication has never been this possible and affordable. My sisters who are residing in Australia and Canada gets to chat with me everyday. I get to talk with them more often than I do with my neighbors next door. When I was working in a call center, we used predictive dialers to automatically make calls without having to key in phone numbers. One quick call after the other. So quick that I get to talk to around people 20 people in an hour. And they have no idea that the caller is continents away from them. The world that was believed to be flat was known to be round and now perceived to be flat (again). Magellan would definitely dispute this new perception. But if he were alive today, I’m pretty sure he would have just browsed eBay or Amazon for spices and gold.