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Are You Asking Life for What You Want?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She didn’t have to re-qualify or re-certify or get additional education to do so, and she stepped back in at a salary in the 70′s! For example: She used her bonus to put in a new laundry room, even while worrying about sending her high school senior to college. He ended up getting a full ride scholarship!

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Do the Rich Use Debt Differently?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When I was a mainframe computer programmer and project manager, we used a relational database product from IBM called DB2. One of my nieces did this when borrowing for college. Now she has much more debt than her education should have cost. The excess money may just disappear with no benefit to you.

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Cutting the Gender Wage Gap

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

At my last employer, unbeknownst to me at the time, many of the executive level officers all attended the same private college. Mary Barra (GM); Meg Whitman (HP); Virgina Rometty (IBM); Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed) and Ursula Burns (Xeorx) didn’t sideline themselves. Alternatives to Student Loans to Fund Your Education.