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Paulette Lind cobbled together a pretty good living by working two jobs. By day, the 49-year-old single mom worked full time in a local hospital, drawing blood samples from patients awaiting surgery. That paycheck went to cover the mortgage on her modest Minneapolis, Minn., home. To pay other bills--including parochial-school tuition for daughter Amy, 13--Lind worked 21 hours a week at Davanni's Pizza, a supplier of Northwest Airlines' domestic in-flight meals, where she earned $9 an hour...
...height of the dot-com fever, many in the business world felt that a lack of an MBA degree was not necessarily an impediment to entrepreneurial success. But now that the fantasy is over, business and law schools seem to be more attractive to those looking for a stable paycheck...
...their course eventually, and that crucial resurgence in capital investment will inevitably follow. But nobody?s calling it before the spring, and between now and then forecasters will be looking anxiously at unemployment reports to see when and if John Q. Consumer just gets too nervous about his paycheck to keep spending Saturdays with his credit card...
...course, is personal finance?s Rule One - it?s like getting 18 percent return on an investment in the middle of a bear market. And everybody knows credit-card balances never stay down for long, so really I?d just be delaying the stimulus until next time my paycheck doesn?t cover my expenses. But without getting into the dirty financial details, putting up $300 against my current credit-card- and other debt balances only depresses me with the sheer spit-in-the-ocean futility of it. With this volume, it's ridiculous to even...
...longer a society where the women who take those jobs are simply "supplementing" a husband?s more substantial paycheck. Many women today who take on caregiving jobs are sole wage earners, responsible for an entire family. Beyond that, they?re taking on some of the most psychologically and physically taxing jobs we have to offer...