Articles By Audrey Arkins

• Retirement Plans - How to Invest in a 401(k) or Other Retirement Plan

  Not sure how much to contribute to your retirement plan every month? That's easy: Put in as much as you possibly can without leaving yourself stuck. Read more...

• Retirement Plans - How to Roll Over Your Retirement Accounts

  What happens to your retirement accounts if you change jobs? First of all, it's your money and no one can take it from you. Initially your best option is to do nothing and leave your 401(k) or other retirement money where it is. Then, after … Read more...

• First-Time Home Buyer Tips - Income and Mortgage Size

  The first and biggest hurdle to buying your own home is money. Few buyers, if any, try to buy a home without financing because it just doesn't make sense. In addition to the relatively low price of credit in America, why would anyone pass … Read more...

• First-Time Home Buyer Tips - Working with a Realtor

  Ask anyone who's ever sold a home, and they'll tell you how seriously they took the process of selecting a real estate agent to represent them. It's likely they also took a proactive role in ensuring that the agent worked hard to market … Read more...

• Dream Job: Lifeguard

  Seasonal lifeguards make anywhere from $16 to $20 an hour. Full-time lifeguards, known as permanents, make up to $27 an hour. A permanent oversees a couple of miles of beach, and other lifeguards assigned there. A captain oversees a group … Read more...

• Dream Job: Film Director

  The majority of directors in Hollywood work outside the classic notion of big-studio filmmaking with hundred-million-dollar budgets and six months to shoot in some exotic location. A typical cable movie, for example, costs $3-$4 million. … Read more...

• Dream Job: Pro Skateboarder

  According to Bertino, "turning pro does change your life as far as money is concerned. You go from having little or nothing to living large. It's a very young culture, so it's easy to get caught up partying. That can make the cash disappear … Read more...

• Dream Job: Rocket Scientist

  Becoming a rocket scientist is the ultimate thrill for the mathematically and scientifically inclined, but getting there requires enormous focus and intellectual application. While rocket science used to be the preserve of white males, … Read more...

• Time Off: Whatever Happened to Leisure Time?

  Forty years ago, economists predicted that the U.S. workforce was heading into a crisis of leisure - that people would soon have so much free time they wouldn't know what to do with it. As the impact of technology made more and more human … Read more...

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