May 2013 - Page 3 of 4 - The Outlier Model

Updates: May 5 – 11

New Zealand trip, trip to New Zealand, NZ, personal finance blogs, personal finance articles, financial articles, financial blogs

Brian / May 11th, 2013 / 10 Comments

Some bloggers have been asking about the details of my NZ trip. If you’re interested in hearing more, you can check out my beer and wine blog over at www.tangledvines.ca and check out my post on the wine region of Waiheke Island! That was as far out of Auckland as I got, although hanging with NZ Muse was pretty fun too (ps. congrats on the wedding last week!). Someone mentioned it’s Mother’s...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: Canucks, mothers day, new zealand recap, thank your mother, waiheke wine, whitecaps

May garden update part 1: Soil!

gardening, choosing the right soil, growing your own food, community garden, gardening

CF / May 10th, 2013 / 10 Comments

There’s so many things that I love about growing my own food. It’s a great learning experience, a great way to get outside, and oh man… home grown tomatoes. Enough said. 2012 was an AWESOME gardening year for me and Brian. We had an epic balcony garden for the first time ever and we finally got into a community garden. We started planning out our garden for 2013 a few weeks...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: apartment gardening, gardening, Gardening in the city, home garden, how to plant a garden

5 Reasons that Saving money Isn’t as Hard as you Think

Saving money, budgeting, budget, financial situation, financial peace, save money

Guest / May 8th, 2013 / 1 Comment

With the financial crisis still looming and Government spending cuts being announced left, right and centre, it’s no wonder that a lot of us are struggling to make ends meet. Our paychecks don’t stretch quite as far as they once did, and we wistfully remember the days when we could press ‘check balance’ without the ominous feeling of dread! And speaking of checks, take a look at the cool bank...

Posted in: Guest Post Tagged with: making more money, save money, saving money, spending money

Got ovaries? Work less!

Work less, job discrimination, job inequality

CF / May 6th, 2013 / 24 Comments

A new study published in a recent issue of Gender & Society suggests that occupations which have higher average working hours per week have higher levels of gender segregation. These occupations vary, but include fields like law, engineering, computer science, and areas such as senior management. According to principal investigator Youngjoo Cha, an assistant professor of sociology at Indiana...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: gender equality in the workplace, orking mothers, women equality, women in computer science, women in medicine, women in technology