Savvy Saving Bytes

While working on staff at two different companies, I was startled when documents listing employee’s salaries somehow suddenly crossed my desk. Wow! Here I’d been wondering how much money coworkers were making and shazam – there were the numbers in crisp black and white. Twice! Both financial documents were enlightening, but the larger company’s payroll [...]

Do I believe in that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Only if we’re talking about Brigadoon. Still, it’s a pretty thought. Here are some other thoughts about gold, work, working and what many do best — thinking about working: “Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other [...]

In the beginning my part time job was enough of a challenge to make it interesting. Recommended by a high school classmate, I had been hired by a local department store to repair damaged costume jewelry. Working in a tiny, windowless, basement space, I nonetheless got a kick out of figuring out how to put [...]

Confession time. Am about to do an about-face* on CVS’s self-service, checkout stations. When I first wrote about their sudden appearance in CVS stores in October, I was not thrilled about taking on the role of cashier and working for free. Nor was I enthusiastic about dealing with cobbled together self-checkout stations that always seemed [...]

Do you love math? Does working in the health field appeal to you? If yes, and you’re thinking of a career in either of these two fields, here’s some good news. Of the 20 most profitable small businesses in the USA from 2003 to 2010, a whopping nine are money related and seven are in [...]

During the summer when I was high school student, I started my first nine to five job at the newspaper where I had been contributing a small column. My job consisted of filling in for vacationing employees. My first assigned task was typing up advertising bills, something that filled me with apprehension. The office manager, [...]