Sep 01 2008
How Our Financial Attitude Is Changing With Increasing Income
Since a little more than seven months ago, I made some adjustments to the path in which my career was taking me and took up a job instead of pursuing PhD. One of the main reasons for going that route was that I was so narrowly focused for so long that I forgot why I was doing PhD in the first place (of course, there is more to that story that just that, but I won’t go into that with this post).
Anyways, our household income increased by about four times after I took up the job. Initially, things were taking a deflating turn for the first couple of months – I guess this was in part because I was a relatively “newly employed” and was undergoing training without any major responsibilities (plus, I apparently hadn’t discovered new ways of spending the increased income). However, our spending took a turn for [...]
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