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[rmd]

so, i've been pondering my finances lately.

as usual, i'm thinking that i should be saving more money. then again, i suspect that if i could retire this moment i'd still be thinking "man, i should be saving more money. what if..."

i'm thinking about talking to some kind of financial planning type, but haven't done anything about it yet.


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if you're local to me and have a financial planner you like, feel free to share the name. i have an irrational aversion to most "hey, talk to our financial planners" offers from amex et al since i pessimistically assume they're going to act in a way that maximizes their happiness in terms of "meeting boiler room quotas" and less to maximize my happiness in terms of "making me a lot of money".



thanks!

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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'm pretty useless on this front. I recommend talking to Phi, though. He's pretty clear about this stuff, enough so that I feel relatively comfortable remaining useless.

A random stranger once highly recommended the book Girl , Get Your Money Straight (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767904885/sr=8-1/qid=1149651050/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7963256-1811267?%5Fencoding=UTF8) to me once, though. There's now a follow-up book, "Girl Make Your Money Grow," too. Dunno much about them, except that someone out there really thought they were great.