This guest post from Randy is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or failure. These stories feature folks from all levels of financial maturity and with all sorts of incomes. For the past twenty [...]

The financial blogging conference last week was great. My colleagues and I had a lot of thought-provoking discussions, not only in the planned sessions but also late at night in the hotel lobby. One of these impromptu chats focused on the financial products we actually use. Financial bloggers do a lot of product reviews. (I [...]

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. Before I became a full-time freelancer, I worked for a couple of different companies. Both times I started a new job, it started out exciting and fun. Great benefits! Cool perks! Interesting work! After a year or two, it got harder to get up in the morning [...]

Hi guys, April here. J.D. is off the grid and somewhere in South America, so in his absence I’m introducing new staff writer Tim Sullivan. We’ll do a formal introduction for Tim later this week; for now, a mini-bio is at the end of this post. Congratulations! You just ran a whole three miles on [...]