Realistic Rate of Return – Part IV Inflation

Realistic Rate of Return – Part IV Inflation

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This is the fourth post in a series of posts on Realistic Rate of Return. You can view Part I, Part II, and Part III here. In this part I will try to touch on inflation and how it can affect my nest egg’s value as we travel through time. Sorry for the small delay between Part III and Part IV as this post has been sitting in my drafts folder 60% done for oh the last 9 months 😉

What got me going was that I it was pointed out that I did not consider taxes and inflation in posts like this. While the original post was suppose to be more motivational than scientific it did bring up a good point that I have not talked too much about taxes and inflation on my blog and what do you know I had an article on inflation half done in my drafts folder so here you go.
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Job Dilema – Update

Job Dilema – Update

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Well I kind of stopped updating my job dilemma string of posts right now because I really didn’t want to make anything more overwhelming than it already is as far as companies, but figured I’d give an update on the whole situation and maybe apologize for my instability yesterday morning. This is probably more for my benefit than my readers, but I think it will be interesting to look back at my thought process during this point in my life and see how well I made decisions. So anyway here goes.

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Job Dilema – Company 4 Overview

Job Dilema – Company 4 Overview

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Type of Company : Energy Company

My Role : Part of development team, but would have a good say in what we are doing. Would actually being using some fairly outdated technologies for the most part with just a little bit of the latest technology. Also in unregulated arm of Energy holding company so it’s a lot more fast paced and exciting. They are growing like crazy, expected work hours are 50 hours per week

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Job Dilema – Company 2 Overview

Job Dilema – Company 2 Overview

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Type of Company – Smaller company that develops software for 401ks, pensions, and payroll

My Role – I would be part of a growing development team. Top notch all the way around, would be using latest and greatest, very intelligent people, very developer centric. Top of the line equipment, could wear shorts and t-shirts to work, looks it would be a blast to work there.

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Job Dilema – Company 1 Overview

Job Dilema – Company 1 Overview

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Type of Company – Big Health insurance company

My Role – I would be the top person for a department of 15 people – in fact I would be by FAR the most technically savvy person in this department. So I would have a lot of say in how we solve problems, but the technology is a couple years behind on the programming side and 15 years behind on the database side. Those technologies I would not be able to change.

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