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In Support of Credit Card Points, With Caveats
I would never recommend making heavy use of credit if you’re coming up lean at the end of every month. But we do have enough that we could pay off last month’s credit card bill and pay for this month’s spending.
Getting Married, But Without the Wedding
We got married in a judge’s private office on a Friday afternoon. Besides my husband, the only other people present were my sister, and three close friends. I told my parents a week before we got married what our plans were, and they asked, “Why so quickly? What’s the hurry?” It wasn’t quick or sudden for us; we’d been talking about getting married for months. The major impediment we kept circling around was that we didn’t want a wedding.
When to Pay for Services, and When to Do it Yourself
A large part of adulthood is learning to tell the difference between tasks you should pay someone else to do, and ones you should just do yourself.
Getting the Most Out of My Austrian State-Funded Health Care
After college, like so many other recent graduates frantically staving off real life (or, in my case, the purgatory of a PhD program), I taught English abroad. I got a gig with the Austrian-American Educational Commission that seemed to be designed solely to encourage post-collegiate irresponsibility. I worked 12—you heard me—12 hours a week, and took home about €1,000 a month after taxes. Even after paying €350 in rent each month for the bigger bedroom in our two-bedroom flat, that €650 still stretched a long way.
Careers My Anxiety Disorder Has Prepared Me For
Looking at the bright side of having anxiety.
