This post, written by Michelle Sheiman, is from our partner site LearnVest.
Successful budgeting tends to depend on two things: careful planning and a steady income.
The first, anyone can do. The second isn’t so simple.
If you’re self-employed, you might be asking yourself: “But I don’t have a regular paycheck coming in. Can I even set up [...]

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This article, by Ainslie Simmonds, as told to Libby Kane, comes from our partner site LearnVest.
In 2009, I was a very senior executive celebrating my fourth anniversary at a brokerage firm. 
I was working about 70 hours a week, managing 80 people and traveling to the company’s other offices (two of which were cross-country) 3-4 days a week, [...]

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This post is from staff writer Jeffrey Steele.
The following has occurred to me countless times; maybe it has you as well. Perhaps you’ve even been the one to utter those oft-repeated words.
Two or more people are talking about how far behind they are in saving for retirement. They’ve saved so little, in fact, that the idea [...]

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This post is from staff writer Suba Iyer.
At my first job, fresh out of college, I was determined to prove myself, prove that hiring me was one of the best decisions the company made, prove that I could take any challenge and make it work well before the deadline and prove that I could handle multiple [...]

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This post is by Deborah Dunham and comes from our partner site LearnVest, a site that helps people take control of their finances.
One Tuesday morning last November my husband called from work and told me to sit down—and not get mad. Whenever a phone call starts that way, you just know it’s not going to end well.
“(Insert jerk-of-a-boss’s [...]

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This post is by Anne Greenwood, as told to Colleen Oakley and comes from our partner site LearnVest, a site that helps people take control of their finances.
As the head of client development — and one of the very few women in a managing role — at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, I had a lucrative career [...]

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This post is from staff writer Sarah Gilbert.
I’ve done it all; worked remotely, worked in an office with a serious in-traffic commute, worked in an office with a short commute, worked for myself, and worked for Fortune 100 corporations. I’ve worked 80 hours weeks and I’ve worked 10 hours a week part-time. I’ve been overpaid [...]

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This is a guest post from Suba Iyer.
When I graduated and started looking for my first job a few years ago, I ended up with 2 jobs – one in a very prestigious University and another in private sector. The decision was quite easy, the University offered me $52,000 after negotiation and the private company [...]

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The board for the non-profit writing organization over which I preside had a meeting recently with a local legend, a board organization consultant. He was used to delivering the information he was giving us in several-hour workshops and he talked as fast as he could in the 90 minutes we had, while we scribbled furiously.
So [...]

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Ever wonder where your earnings stack up vs. those of a typical American? Well, wonder no more… CNN/Money has compiled an interesting set of earnings statistics from BLS data.
For starters, the median weekly income for in the United States for “wage and salary workers” in 2012 was $775. That works out to $40,300/year. Is that [...]

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