Prepaid Legal Services: Pros and Cons

Understanding the pros and cons to prepaid legal services means you have to know what you are getting upfront. It does not matter if you need to put together a will, talk to an attorney about a lien on your home, or even if you are going to trial because you have access to everything. Granted, there may be a little more cost involved with certain scenarios, but the whole point to this type of system is to save you money. Below you find various reasons as to why you should use prepaid legal ser

Detroit: Do the Collapse

I enjoy swapping "war stories" about work as much as the next guy. I've heard a lot, but some of the most incredulous came from a college buddy who used to work for General Motors. He was a manager level employee in field operations, but was often called in to work auto shows and the like. What was his job at the auto show you might ask? Well, at one Chicago Auto Show, his first responsibility was to make sure the hotel room for the executive was prepped correctly. This exec had very specific de

Life Insurance Can Reduce Your Liabilities

It?s an old saying that there are two certainties in life ? death and taxes ? and there is definitely a ring of truth in this, but the real misfortune is when the two combine. You work hard all your life and manage to put aside a little money to pass on to your heirs, but what happens when you die? The taxman turns up to demand his share, and the way that the inheritance tax rules have been allowed to lag behind inflation ensures that the numbers caught in this trap increase every year. Curren

First week of work: Win

This last week, I began a new job in a Technical Services department (the part of the library/library system that handles new or problem materials). In some ways, this is the end of my “freelance life.” (But not really, because I plan to continue blogging and consulting, since both are fun.) It’s a 40-hour a week job, but I’m happy about it because it’s a job doing something I want to do and plenty of it. I’m essentially sure that I found the right job. Work/Workload The work itself is somet