Coffee Shops and The Alberta Young Adult Rat Race
It feels strange working only 40 – 50 hour work weeks. I wanted to work for another company because of it, as being paid hourly,…
It feels strange working only 40 – 50 hour work weeks. I wanted to work for another company because of it, as being paid hourly,…
Outsmarting the banks hell-bent on stopping risk takers such as investors, volatile high-income employees, and entrepreneurs. Shielding the fruits of my labour from the government…
“5 is the magic number. Eventually, [investment properties you acquire will] pay for more of themselves.” At a dinner with a good colleague of mine…
It has been almost 4.5 years since I threw all my stuff in my car and drove away from Vancouver to Alberta, not looking back.…
Once I was taking a walk with a woman (one who went to university for a traditional white-collar career) and I casually showed her an…
“Getting a Ferrari is unrealistic though.” “Some peoples’ families are just rich.” “They’ve just had connections.” “They were just [academically] smart.” So common are quotes like the…
Resistance to public scrutiny is often the achilles’ heel to success- from lifestyle choices to financially sound decisions. You can often tell a Asian person’s…
Whatever you invest in, do your due diligence and research using multiple sources… or advisors, if you like people. You’d be surprised at the conflicting…
Dealing with the bank is like playing devil’s advocate, as the bank is currently my greatest enemy- giving me much grief to acquire funding for my…
Much of my time is spent alone, and it is not the rigours of oilfield and road construction work that gets me down, but the…