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What To Do When You Think You’re Underpaid

Finding out that you’re the lowest paid person on your team even though you do the same (or more!) work than your colleagues is a pretty discouraging discovery. If you do find out, you should definitely bring it up to your manager or if you think they’re sympathetic and can do something about the discrepancy. How you do it, however, is what makes the difference between getting a raise or getting fired. Thankfully, it’s not as difficult as it may seem.

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Sound Advice

moneyisnotimportant:

True financial freedom doesn’t come from having just one paycheck. It will always leave you wondering, “What if I lose my job?”

Having more than one source of income alleviates this problem. Even if you don’t have time to generate income from another source, you should always have another skill that can generate a paycheck quickly in the event that you find yourself without a job.

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Typos are no laughing matter. They ruin lives.

thedailywhat:

Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: Improves with context: Jon Henninger fronts a Christian/Gospel band.

Still, are we sure Mr. Lyday isn’t on both?

[romenesko.]

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Every day my accomplice and I look out the window to see a BUDS ambulance parked in an empty parking lot across the street from our office. We have watched them sit tirelessly for hours and we anticipate their movements. We’ve drawn several conclusions about why they are parked there and what they are doing while awaiting an emergency (though we almost never seem them turn those sirens on or in pursuit of anything but coffee and donuts from Dunkin Donuts). We are trying to give a viable answer as to why they are in an abandoned lot, as opposed to being wherever ambulances are stored. We’re almost certain their is some logical, professional answer for them being positioned here, but we’d rather depend on our own foolishness.

 Just when we tried to give them some credibility, suggesting that their has to be purposfulness in this stationary life, we see this. Our heroes are building a snowman. Screw your injury, who gives a rats @$s about your heart attack, when there is snow on the ground.

Disclaimer: We are not trying to Fed EX* these dudes, we are actually envious of how they get to spend their work day. Please don’t forward this to BUDS. It’s too hard out here to get a job and I’ll be damned if I’m responsible for someone’s firing because I’ve jumped to conclusions.

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We Have Arrived!

About us:

We’re two insurance savvy gurus in training. We work at a small insurance agency on the south side of Chicago. And truth be told, we deserve a reality show. You wouldn’t believe the mishaps and discoveries we experience every day. We know that this job is a stepping stone to bigger things. We know that this is the kind of experience that will make us gurus some day. The thing is, we don’t know what exactly we’re supposed to be taking from this experience- so we’re handing the analyzing over to you; help us make sense of it all.

We have too many things to cover and we have no idea what we want to focus on. We just know that our lives as insurance agents is interesting enough to share. The things that we encounter daily are enough to make us want to write about it and share it with the world. Soooo here we are, blogging.

We hope to bring the hilariousness and craziness that is our office to your life. Every other day we are at risk of being fired or sued- so we’re pretty much awesome.

 We also hope to inform you on the importance and benefits of insurance. We are open books- you ask it, we’ll answer it. We will be dropping nuggets from a consumer point of view and from a business angle.

Oh, and we want to promote our agency in a innovative, off-the-record way (translation: We can’t use the company’s name or logo, but we can talk all the sheesh we want as two random chicks). Hit us up at theinsuredlife@gmail.com for quotes, questions, and all that jazz.