freelancing

  • How My Finances Changed This Decade

    In 2009, I was 27 years old and a year into my first full-time job with benefits. I was working as an executive assistant at a think tank in Washington, DC, and had ended up in this job after spending the past five years telemarketing, temping, going to grad school to get a MFA in…


  • How I Increased My Net Worth By $27,000 In Six Months

    According to You Need a Budget (YNAB), my total net worth is currently $108,940. That’s $27,213 higher than it was six months ago, when I switched my budgeting app from Mint to YNAB and began focusing on growing my net worth as quickly as possible. I wasn’t expecting the numbers to grow quite this fast,…