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This article is by staff writer Kristin Wong.

I’ll admit it. When I lost work last year, a tiny sense of entitlement crept up on me.

Okay, maybe it was more than tiny. On the outside, I told people: “I just feel like I deserve a good job, you know?” On the inside, I thought: Why the $%^@ don’t I have a good job? I’m awesome.

My awesomeness, however, is irrelevant. Sometimes these things just happen. They happen to a lot of people, and, despite kind words of encouragement, they don’t necessarily happen for any good reason. It’s funny — when bad things happen to me, I always tell myself that it’s only because something better can happen. It’s like I think I’m immune to obstacles or something. Oh, this can’t possibly be bad. Bad things don’t happen to me, I’m Kristin! It’s probably just something amazing in disguise.

This post is by staff writer Honey Smith.

Aah, procrastination. Controlling our time can be difficult, and most of us are intimately familiar with the act of delaying the act of starting or completing a task. Piers Steel, professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and author of “The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done,” has made the study of procrastination into an academic specialty.

This article is by editor Linda Vergon.

This week, one of our Facebook readers asked the question:

“Is it advisable to transfer money from a Class A mutual fund savings account to a Roth IRA in order to maximize my contributions? I saved money in the past in an American Fund mutual fund; but now I don’t make as much money at work, so I thought I should use my saving to add to the Roth.”

Like J.D. Roth said in his post “Which investments are best for a Roth IRA?” we still have to default to the standard advice: “I can’t tell you exactly which stocks or mutual funds you should buy, but I can give you some ideas.” Admittedly, it is difficult to answer a question like this with specificity because there is so much about their individual situation that we don’t know.

This article is by staff writer Holly Johnson.

Almost exactly a year ago today, I quit my full-time job to pursue my passion — writing. It was one of the proudest moments of my life, but it was also terrifying. I had spent the last six years working alongside my husband, a mortician, in the funeral industry. My job certainly wasn’t perfect; but it was stable, well-paying, and sometimes fun. I also loved the people that I worked with and was extremely attached to a few. On the other hand, I knew it was time. I had been working full time and writing on the side for so long that I no longer knew what a “real life” was like. In fact, my “real life” was a mess.