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Money Goals Update – December 2009

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

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The decade is officially over.

2009 is out. Hello 2010!

The internet has seen it’s fair share of resolution and 2010 goal posts over the last week, so I thought I’d contribute as well.

However, I don’t believe in waiting for the end of the year in order to start goals, so back in October I posted a goals for September 2010 post. I included five financial goals I had set for myself and this is the first update I’ve given on these goals.

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Money Goals: Here’s Mine, What’re Yours?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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Another ALT (assistant language teacher) and I were recently talking about post-college life. He’s been out of college for a little over a year, while I have just been out for five months.

I told him how I was really enjoying the freedom and doing what I wanted for the first time in my life. For 22 years I felt like I was doing what was expected of me, and was never doing what I truly wanted. That finally changed when I got on the plane to Japan in July.

I told my friend I was enjoying not having to go to the library to study for a test, or having to keep myself awake through morning classes, but I mostly enjoyed coming home at four or five in the afternoon and being completely done with work and obligations.

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