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What Burger King Taught Me About Personal Finance and Success

By Tony On 04/17/2011 [ 2 Responses ]

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When I turned 16, I got my dad’s hand-me-down Ford Escort. Along with this symbol of teenage freedom, I decided I needed adult responsibility and went out looking for my first part-time job so that I could pay my parents for the car payments every month and hopefully have a little spare cash for the teenage things I wanted to do now that I had a car. When you’re 16, your employment options aren’t as plentiful as when you’re an adult, so I found myself applying for work several of the local fast food establishments.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I ended up landing a job at what was probably one of the busiest Burger Kings in the country at the time. It shared a plot of land with the only Walmart for several miles in a middle to upper middle class area. I also didn’t realize this at the time, but working there would ingrain in me several lessons about personal finance and success.

My Lasik Experience: The Results

By Tony On 04/11/2011 [ No Responses ]

My Lasik Experience

By now, you know a couple things about me. Most notably, that I’m the kind of guy that buys a Lasik surgery groupon and goes about getting the procedure done as quickly and efficiently as possible. Knowing this, you must be wondering how it all turned out. Did it turn out fine, or did they completely mess up my eyes causing me indescribable amounts of pain and bleeding?

My Lasik Experience: The Procedure

By Tony On 04/08/2011 [ One Response ]

My Lasik Experience

I’m the kind of person that once I make a decision, I like to execute on that decision as quickly as possible. After purchasing the Lasik surgery I found the groupon for, I called the place to make an appointment. I called the office on a Monday, scheduled the consultation for that Thursday, and ended up having the procedure done on Friday. How’s that for efficiency.

My Lasik Experience: The Purchase

By Tony On 04/03/2011 [ 2 Responses ]

My Lasik Experience

I’d been back and forth for a few years now about whether to get Lasik surgery. My vision wasn’t that bad and the procedure always seemed pretty expensive to me (normally around $2,000 per eye), so I didn’t know if the real benefits I would get from it were worth the money. After all, I usually only wear glasses to drive and when I have to sit through a class or PowerPoint presentation or something like that.

About a month ago, I was randomly looking on Groupon and the first groupon that popped up was 50% off Lasik surgery. All of a sudden, the surgery seemed a whole lot more worthwhile.

By Tony On 03/29/2011 [ 2 Responses ]

Return of the Blog

After a lot of thought and deliberation, I’ve decided to bring back the Finavigation blog.

For those that remember, the format of the blog before was like lessons in personal finance – mostly explaining things, simplifying the complex world of finance, and finding different ways to present the material so that it would be more interesting to people. After several posts, I felt that this format just wasn’t working. So I ended up taking it down for a couple reasons.

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