I visited the "Ride for a Woman" website and their program sounds like a great cause:
"Most women in the Bwindi community of Kanungu District spend their days and well into each night managing their households. They carry water, dig their family’s garden, care for their children and animals, clean the house, and ensure everything is running smoothly. This leaves no time for them to learn a trade to earn money and very little time for them to learn from each other.
Ride 4 a Woman is tackling this problem with bicycles! Not only do we rent bicycles to tourists to fund our Women’s Community Centre, we offer bicycle career training to the women as one of the career options they can choose with us. Please read more about our Women’s Community Centre."
Might just have to try this one! I find myself blowing through money (sushi, Subway, whatever), so I'd love to have to face myself at the end of each week.
I have extensively researched starting a Roth IRA. After graduating from college last year, I started at job in August where I currently make about 11,000 a year (it also helps pay off my student loans) My financial state being what it is, I have been entirely focused on building up an emergency fund with the little extra money I have each month. I hope to start an IRA next summer once I have moved on from this job and into a higher salaried position.
"And the slower you travel, the more immersive your experience will be, and the more likely you will be to develop relationships with locals (who may not want to invest the time and effort getting to know somebody who is simply passing through) who can in turn deepen your travel experience and help you learn what life is like around the world."
We have just spent more than two months of our 6 1/2 months volunteering (www.workaway.info is one more of the volunteering pages to add) and we have made plenty of friends here and really got into the Turkish culture. Tomorrow we will go on cycling. We chose the bikes for our world trip for many reasons, but the main reasons are the cost (my bike cost 70 € second hand and Roberto's bike was a gift of a friend, you pay for no gas, tickets, parking, tax etc, only some reparation from time to time), the speed (fast enough to make more than 100 km a day but slow enough to get to know all the small villages on the way) and the nature friendlyness (no smog, no use of petrol, no noises).
We use a lot of hospitality exchange (again one more to add: www.warmshowers.org especially for cycling tourists), try to eat whatever is grown in the place we are and cook a lot ourselves.
But thanks so much for the housekeeping- and Sailboat-tipps, we are defenitely going to try that out! You can read more about our world-bike-tour here: www.tastingtravels.com
Yes I've heard of them, we actually have both. My husband and I each have a seperate and joint eotj IRA. We also have seperate tradition IRAs that we have used to rollover previous 401ks.
Amusing job interview questions. I can't say I've ever been asked anything weird like this in an interview. Most of mine have just been the typical questions that are asked at almost every interview. You're right though, most questions aren't about being right or wrong. It's about judging your personality and whether you're actually a good fit for the company. There's usually only a few questions that are actually checking if you meet the job skill requirements.
I started a Roth IRA a few years after going freelance and fund it fully. Wish I'd started it sooner, but there was a lot going on back then.
This year my goal is to put some money into my daughter's Roth IRA.
I have heard of both, but only have a traditional IRA right now.
I visited the "Ride for a Woman" website and their program sounds like a great cause:
"Most women in the Bwindi community of Kanungu District spend their days and well into each night managing their households. They carry water, dig their family’s garden, care for their children and animals, clean the house, and ensure everything is running smoothly. This leaves no time for them to learn a trade to earn money and very little time for them to learn from each other.
Ride 4 a Woman is tackling this problem with bicycles! Not only do we rent bicycles to tourists to fund our Women’s Community Centre, we offer bicycle career training to the women as one of the career options they can choose with us. Please read more about our Women’s Community Centre."
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Might just have to try this one! I find myself blowing through money (sushi, Subway, whatever), so I'd love to have to face myself at the end of each week.
Thanks for sharing! :)
I have extensively researched starting a Roth IRA. After graduating from college last year, I started at job in August where I currently make about 11,000 a year (it also helps pay off my student loans) My financial state being what it is, I have been entirely focused on building up an emergency fund with the little extra money I have each month. I hope to start an IRA next summer once I have moved on from this job and into a higher salaried position.
I've heard of them but have no personal experience with either one.
My wife and I both have Roths. I like them. I'm hoping to get my college student into one ASAP.
Yes--I know what these are and I have an IRA!
https://twitter.com/#!/KarmellaS/status/184704678746005505
I have a Roth, and one traditional one I rolled over from an old job
This is so true:
"And the slower you travel, the more immersive your experience will be, and the more likely you will be to develop relationships with locals (who may not want to invest the time and effort getting to know somebody who is simply passing through) who can in turn deepen your travel experience and help you learn what life is like around the world."
We have just spent more than two months of our 6 1/2 months volunteering (www.workaway.info is one more of the volunteering pages to add) and we have made plenty of friends here and really got into the Turkish culture. Tomorrow we will go on cycling. We chose the bikes for our world trip for many reasons, but the main reasons are the cost (my bike cost 70 € second hand and Roberto's bike was a gift of a friend, you pay for no gas, tickets, parking, tax etc, only some reparation from time to time), the speed (fast enough to make more than 100 km a day but slow enough to get to know all the small villages on the way) and the nature friendlyness (no smog, no use of petrol, no noises).
We use a lot of hospitality exchange (again one more to add: www.warmshowers.org especially for cycling tourists), try to eat whatever is grown in the place we are and cook a lot ourselves.
But thanks so much for the housekeeping- and Sailboat-tipps, we are defenitely going to try that out! You can read more about our world-bike-tour here: www.tastingtravels.com
Yikes! Thanks for the tax catch, folks. I've updated the article. I think my mom was misremembering that one. =)
Excellent!
Yes, I've heard of both. I have one of each, though I don't contribute like I should.
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Yes I've heard of them, we actually have both. My husband and I each have a seperate and joint eotj IRA. We also have seperate tradition IRAs that we have used to rollover previous 401ks.
Heard of them and am trying to learn the differneces and which one is right for me.
I do not have one currently set up, but I'm looking into options for getting started!
I first learned about IRA's (both types) during my last year in grad school in the mid nineties. I started contributing shortly after that.
Amusing job interview questions. I can't say I've ever been asked anything weird like this in an interview. Most of mine have just been the typical questions that are asked at almost every interview. You're right though, most questions aren't about being right or wrong. It's about judging your personality and whether you're actually a good fit for the company. There's usually only a few questions that are actually checking if you meet the job skill requirements.
Yes! My husband and I each have our own Roths that we max out each year.
I started a Roth IRA a few years after going freelance and fund it fully. Wish I'd started it sooner, but there was a lot going on back then.
This year my goal is to put some money into my daughter's Roth IRA.
Yes I have! For now, paying off debt and getting matching with my 401k... but will be doing a Roth conversion and maxing it out after that!
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