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Tuesday, July 15, 2020

Home Sweet Home (4 clicks)

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July 15, 2020 at 9:00 pm ET

I’ve been in Canada for the last week, for a family reunion near Ottawa, and then a few days of rest and relaxation. I usually blog a lot when on vacation, but this time I didn’t want anything to do with the computer, so I left it home. I had a few withdrawal [...] ... (more)

Saturday, June 21, 2020

A Brooklyn Evening (10 clicks)

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June 21, 2020 at 10:50 pm ET

It’s been a tough month, but I’m taking a weekend to myself, where I’m not doing anything work-related. It feels good. M. and I went down to the new Ikea that opened up in Brooklyn last week. I was against this Ikea being built, because of the traffic it will generate in my quiet [...] ... (more)

Wednesday, June 11, 2020

It Never Stops (15 clicks)

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June 11, 2020 at 10:49 pm ET

It’s been a rough couple of weeks, which is the reason for the darkness here at Midlife Beginnings. Work problems have exploded. Management’s plan was to outsource the bulk of our work to teams in India, but to have it be managed from NYC. They trained the teams in India, laid off [...] ... (more)

Monday, May 26, 2020

A Perfect Weekend (8 clicks)

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May 26, 2020 at 7:33 pm ET

My blog has been a bit depressing lately with talk of a slowing economy, layoffs at my company, and a generally toxic atmosphere at work. But this weekend put all of that out of my mind, at least for a couple days. The weather here in Brooklyn was idyllic; upper 60’s and low [...] ... (more)

Thursday, May 22, 2020

More Layoffs (18 clicks)

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May 22, 2020 at 10:17 pm ET

There was another round of layoffs at my firm yesterday. This just doesn’t seem to end. It hit our IT group and our “special investments” group (the ones who put together all those crazy “structured finance” securities). Two good friends & mentors of mine were let go. It’s been stressful to [...] ... (more)

Wednesday, May 14, 2020

Dodging the Bullet (12 clicks)

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May 14, 2020 at 9:01 pm ET

It’s been a while since I’ve written an entry. When I don’t write much it means either that something is on my mind, or that I’m very busy. In this case, both of these scenarios were my reality. Word has been going around at my company for the past couple weeks that layoffs were [...] ... (more)

Saturday, May 3, 2020

Monthly Financial Update for April (8 clicks)

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May 3, 2020 at 8:22 pm ET

As expected, it turned out that April was a good month financially. I hit two milestones: my net worth is above $60,000 for the first time, and I have over $100,000 in assets. I never thought that would happen! Too bad most of it’s in my retirement account and can’t be touched for [...] ... (more)

Thursday, May 1, 2020

I got out of work... (9 clicks)

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May 1, 2020 at 9:55 pm ET

I got out of work at 5 tonight (a half-day for me), and decided to take the night off. I was home by 6, had eaten by 7, and now it’s 9:30. The dishes are done, I’ve caught up on my blogging buddies’ blogs, and now I’m settled in to write a blog [...] ... (more)

Sunday, April 27, 2020

Buy, Carry, List, Pack, Mail (17 clicks)

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April 27, 2020 at 10:27 pm ET

That’s been my life this weekend. My book supply has been running low so I decided to really make an effort to increase my inventory. And I sure picked the right weekend. Saturday morning I went for a bike ride and hit all the stoop sales in my neighborhood. And there [...] ... (more)

Monday, April 21, 2020

A Brief Respite (4 clicks)

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April 21, 2020 at 8:32 pm ET

So for the first time in a few weeks I got home at a decent hour tonight. Was out of work by 5:30, and home before 7pm! So I will take some of my time to write a blog entry, and then will do a full hour of yoga after I’ve finished. Matt from [...] ... (more)

Wednesday, April 16, 2020

Light at the End of the Tunnel (3 clicks)

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April 16, 2020 at 9:42 pm ET

I’m finally seeing the end coming for my recent busy spell, and it can’t come soon enough for me. Today was a beautiful day in NYC and, for the first time in about a month, I took a real lunch hour. I heated up my lunch (leftovers from last night’s beef stew dinner) [...] ... (more)

Friday, April 11, 2020

Transitions (8 clicks)

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April 11, 2020 at 10:46 pm ET

Whew! What a week. Another week of 12 hour days. I found myself arriving at work around 9am, leaving at 9pm, without even taking a proper lunchbreak — every day this week. It’s not healthy. I’m used to working out three times a week, biking, rollerblading, walking a lot. I haven’t [...] ... (more)

Sunday, April 6, 2021

Other Random Thoughts (12 clicks)

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April 6, 2021 at 9:25 am ET

I’ve updated my little weight tracker on the right. I’ve lost 4 lbs over the past month. How about that! The funny thing is, I’ve been too busy to even think about my weight. And I’ve been too busy to get up and buy my afternoon sweets. About 2 weeks [...] ... (more)

Monthly Financial Update for March (17 clicks)

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April 6, 2021 at 9:07 am ET

I wrote at the beginning of March that this would be a “Treading Water” month financially and, sure enough, that’s exactly what it was. My credit card debt is exactly the same as it was at the beginning of the month. I paid down about $500, but I have $500 now on the [...] ... (more)

Tuesday, April 1, 2021

A Long Day (11 clicks)

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April 1, 2021 at 10:10 pm ET

Things haven’t slowed down yet for me at work. I put in 10 hours Saturday and 6 hours Sunday, and didn’t leave the office until 9pm last night & tonight. Ah, the of an employee of an investment bank. But I do see the light at the end of the tunnel. [...] ... (more)

Friday, March 28, 2021

Busy Week (10 clicks)

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March 28, 2021 at 10:12 pm ET

Finally it’s Friday, and I’m done with another week of work. This week has been by far the most intense of my 8 years at my company. We’re having some technology infrastructure problems due to the layoffs a month ago, and I’ve been responsible for cleaning up a couple serious messes. Just [...] ... (more)

Friday, March 21, 2021

Living the Suburban Lifestyle (20 clicks)

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March 21, 2021 at 9:12 pm ET

Today I decided to take my bar code scanner to some thrift shops around the Hartford area to see if I could dig up any good book finds to sell on Amazon. It wasn’t a particularly lucrative day, but it turned out to be a fairly interesting one. I live in Brooklyn, NY, [...] ... (more)

Thursday, March 20, 2021

Blogging from Hartford

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March 20, 2021 at 10:08 pm ET

I made it to Hartford tonight, and have begun my little mini-vacation. I managed to not look at the stock markets all day until just now, and the news was good. I moved some of my 401k money back into equities a couple days ago, and am starting to be glad that I [...] ... (more)

Wednesday, March 19, 2021

A Mini-Vacation (10 clicks)

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March 19, 2021 at 8:39 pm ET

The financial markets are closed for Friday, and I’ve decided to take the day off tomorrow as well. I need a little break. The atmosphere in the office has been very tense, and when out of the office I’ve been pushing myself on my books, so haven’t had much time to relax, [...] ... (more)

Sunday, March 16, 2021

Crazy Week on Wall Street (13 clicks)

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March 16, 2021 at 11:04 am ET

It’s been one of the craziest weeks at work that I can remember: first, Elliot Spitzer resigning and then Bear Stearns imploding. While none of this affects my job directly, I work in Equity Research and am in the middle of a lot of information flows, and am around a lot of people [...] ... (more)

Saturday, March 8, 2021

My Library Grows (6 clicks)

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March 8, 2021 at 7:46 pm ET

It’s a rainy Saturday in Brooklyn, and I’ve been using it to catch up on some outstanding tasks, including writing my first blog entry in a week. Things have been a bit slow on my blog, but have been very busy elsewhere. I’ve just finished listing another 25 books, and am up to [...] ... (more)

Sunday, March 2, 2021

February Month-End Financial Update (5 clicks)

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March 2, 2021 at 10:59 am ET

I just updated my NetIQ financial profile. btw I have a separate account for my book business & don’t include this in my financial profile. My business account is at about $100 now, because I’ve been buying new inventory with my profits. At the beginning of February I wrote that I’d be happy if I [...] ... (more)

Selling Books for Extra Income (13 clicks)

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March 2, 2021 at 9:45 am ET

My regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been busier than usual with my day job. And, as I wrote a few days ago, I’ve been implementing an idea I had for selling books on the internet. I’ve written about how I occasionally find books on the street that [...] ... (more)

Monday, February 25, 2021

Checking In (16 clicks)

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February 25, 2021 at 10:18 pm ET

The last week has been crazy. I posted a couple weeks ago that several of my co-workers were laid off. Well, their projects were dumped on me. I’ll delegate them onto other teams, but first I have to understand them, and this has required a LOT of work. I’ve also been implementing an [...] ... (more)

Tuesday, February 19, 2021

More Sidewalk Finds (3 clicks)

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February 19, 2021 at 8:23 pm ET

I had my best sidewalk find yet yesterday. I was walking home from the gym and came across another big box of books that someone was throwing away — mostly law school textbooks published within the past 3 years. I have found that recent textbooks sell for good money on the internet, and [...] ... (more)

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