R.H. Bee had had many careers in his life: Shoe-shine boy, grocery-store bagger, carpet-cleaner's assistant, cab driver, soda jerk, pizza cook, car-wash wax man, truck driver, warehouse receiving clerk, recreation coach, English teacher, dance teacher, entertainment writer, fry cook, cashier, business manager, and for now, small business owner. He has been around, been down, been high, low, and on the go, been happy, sad, glad, a dad, and bad.
As a young man, R.H. realized that his real calling was to write. Some folks say he’s a poet. He’s done the Slams. One other thing, his career(s) have always been about working towards the freedom to do what he wants when he wants. He mainly thanks the writer John D. McDonald and his character Travis McGee for the great example.
Here are some things he’s learned in the pursuit of it all. Seeming isn't being . . . wanting isn't doing. If you want to be rich enough then save and save some more. It isn't what you know, it's what you do with it.
R.H. Bee's blog is Finance is Fun.
It is hard to buy a manufactured product these days that doesn’t come from China or some other sweat shop nation. But that doesn’t mean much when you are out shopping. Normally we buy what we need and take the product at face value.
Of course, a semi-retired human does so at their own peril. This is not a world that likes us to do things halfway. Either retire, you know get out of the rat race, or get back to work and, as the old song goes, “git me some money now.”
…perusing the LA Times OpEd page on Friday and came across this item about how the state and the gov think that the best solution to the current budget problem is to float a bond issue against future lotto revenues. Here are a few factoids from the opinion […]
No more money to be made lapping at the door. Now it is a desert crawl through a landscape cactused with for sale signs. And yes, you may need a guide to get you through to the occasional oasis […]
So what do I do with it? Back in those spendthrift days, $50 was a night out dancing, or the movies for two, or dinner before a Laker game. It was pocket money. But that was before the plan. And the monthly budget that developed from the plan […]
It is a hard choice to trust our government these days. Immense budgets, inefficient actions, regulatory nightmares, lowered taxes, deficit spending, incomprehensible debt loads and that’s just at the local level. One of the main reasons for the swell of support for Obama is the hope that his election might change some of that […]
We are apparently developing three kinds of services in this country. The service industries that provide jobs for the lower class, the government and industry service which provides jobs for the middle class, and the financial services which provides wealth and leisure and privilege for the upper class […]
Think of it this way. Your Wiley Coyote hedge fund is one tiptoe on the ledge and the rest of its body of mortgage liabilities teetoring over the cliff. All it takes is one slight breeze of interest shifts upward to tip the mark to market balance […]
The Fed has two ways it can affect our money. Interest rates can be changed and/or the supply of money can be increased. Even my untutored financial mind can see that if a government, the one that sets the standard BTW, can flood the marketplace with untethered money bad things can happen […]
This week the government announced the schedule for the delivery of our stimulus tax check. If you used an electronic debit to pay your taxes, you will get yours in early May. If you paid the old fashion way, then those checks will be spread out over the next three months with the latest being delivered in July […]
