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Meet a Reader | Mid-Atlantic Julia

The Frugal Girl

My husband and I have four kids ranging from age 3-8, and I am a stay-at-home mom. Last year, to make a little extra cash, I started boarding dogs through Rover, and I am about to start a very very part time job using my RN license for a home care company. What’s an embarrassing money mistake you’ve made?

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What Should I Look for in a Business School?

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Business degrees are available in a wide variety of fields, ranging from conventional focuses like finance and marketing, to the more unique and specialized such as healthcare, or cutting edge areas like data analytics. For those who can’t afford to drop everything, however, a part-time degree program might be a better fit.

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The Best and Worst Times to Side Hustle

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Side hustles can range from babysitting to web designing to freelance writing to soap making- basically anything you can charge for can become a side hustle. You can only cut back on your expenses so much, but your earning potential is practically unlimited.

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Earning Extra Money Online With Paid Surveys

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How much time does it take to do a survey and what are the returns? . This can range from a minute to 20 minutes and sometimes even more. Pay can range anywhere from 10 cents to $150 per survey. It is essentially a part time job, and many would argue that one can make more flipping burgers at Wendy’s.

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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

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I’m following a long range plan for camp content in my Grandma Rie’s Money Camp and it includes all of these, focusing on different things at different ages. Here, told as I would tell it to my Grandkids, are my top 5 lessons. Try for internships to get a feel for what the work is really like. How to manage life activities.

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Expect More from Your Daughters

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Expose her to a full range of career choices. Kahn noted that: “Gender differences in occupations and industries, as well as differences in gender roles and the gender division of labor remain important, and research based on experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted.”

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Diversify Side Income Or Specialize?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My first side hustle was a part-time job at the local mall where I held my full-time day job. A couple of years ago, I took a part-time, 30 hour per week job to get my foot in the door at the company I currently work for. I was a teenager, and my friend was working at a store that was understaffed.