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		<title>University of Shame: Credit Card Offers for Alumni</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today as I was checking my snail mail I came across a really interesting letter. It looked like a credit card offer, but it had my former university&#8217;s alumni association logo on the top left corner. There was a &#8220;0% APR&#8221; teaser on the right-hand side, typical of credit card offers. What was going on [...]


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		<title>The Greatest Predictor of Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard of The Law of Attraction. It&#8217;s the idea that we bring into our lives what we fear and desire the most by encouraging events through the power of our minds and our preoccupations. Many books have been written about the Law of Attraction and its authors argue endlessly that it&#8217;s a great [...]


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		<title>Advantages of Leaving the Corporate World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 19:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9 to 5 Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t easy to make the leap from a 9-to-5er to an entrepreneur. Obviously there are many challenging and time-consuming steps in-between. But it&#8217;s possible that you don&#8217;t even need to make all of these steps or free the rat race in order to find a more peaceful and fulfilling work life. Maybe all you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charting Your Voyage Out of the Rat Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Escape Routes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all in the finances. If you want to escape from your day job, all it really takes is an ability to earn more than you can reasonably expect to live on per month. Part of making &#8220;The Great Office Escape&#8221; is having an understanding of your financial picture, and in order to do this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing What to Charge Clients for Freelance Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get a new job, the whole money thing is laid out for you in a nice, little package called a salary. $40,000 a year plus stock in the company. $55,000 a year and benefits. $8 an hour and pennies from the tip jar divided six ways with your fellow barristas while serving coffee-starved, [...]


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		<title>How to Stop Compulsive Web Surfing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I only had more time in the day I could really make headway on this project&#8230;&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard this one before. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve even muttered words similar to these. WIth the explosive birth of social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, iPhone Apps, Blogging etc.) it&#8217;s becoming more and more difficult to focus on anything. [...]


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		<title>Eating Out is a Great Way to Save Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gwah? Are you serious, Mike? But everyone says that shopping for groceries, &#8220;buying in bulk&#8221; and cooking at home are the best ways to save! Well, guess what? If you follow my advice eating out can actually be cheaper. So put the 6-pound bag of rice back on the shelf and hit up your favorite [...]


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		<title>Are you an Entrepreneur, or are you &#8220;Just&#8221; Self-Employed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur. Solopreneur. Self-Employed. Small Business Owner. I throw a lot of terms around that, when looked at objectively, might mean something similar. But in many ways an entrepreneur is no more a small-business owner than a pig is a slice of bacon. A slice of bacon once was part of a pig but a pig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Courtesy of a Rejection Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9 to 5 Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a fresh-faced recent college grad excited about his entry into the &#8220;real world&#8221; in the spring of 2005, I encountered one of my first soul-crushing obstacles that helped set me on a slow but sure course toward the entrepreneur I am today. I would send out job applications and never hear anything back. This [...]


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		<title>New Workplace Trends: 9 to 5 is So Last Decade!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9 to 5 Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an old friend who works as a software engineer. He holds the same position with the same company as he did over five years ago. His salary has increased steadily each year. Coming from a traditional family where his father valued hard work ethics, integrity, and professional stubbornness, my friend was ecstatic to [...]]]></description>
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