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My Myer-Briggs personality type

CF / March 20th, 2012 / 5 Comments

I was watching hockey with some friends the other day when the subject of the Myer-Briggs personality test came up. It’s a pretty famous questionnaire which attempts to categorize individuals based on how they perceive the world and make decisions. It also makes interesting connections between careers and personality types. I hadn’t thought about my personality type in a long time...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: finance, Master Plan, Myers-Briggs, personality tests

Cost and benefit of grad school

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CF / March 9th, 2012 / No Comments

Here’s a timely tool which coincides nicely with part one my jobs in science series. It’s a grad school calculator, presented by the LearnVest website. It’s very simple and dumbed down, but gives you an idea of the costs of grad school in terms of lost wages, student loans, and potential income. You enter your current income, your future income, the costs of tuition, etc. and...

Posted in: Career and Work, Philosophy Tagged with: cost of grad school, grad school calculator, jobs in science

$100 grocery budget not enough for Vancouver area politician

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CF / January 26th, 2012 / 3 Comments

A local MLA in the local Greater Vancouver area, Jagrup Brar, has been blogging about surviving on the welfare allowance of $610 a month. It’s a publicity stunt of course – this man is a well paid public employee who unlike many welfare recipients, has no mental health issues and a loving family to return home to at the end of his adventure. While the blog is interesting for some of...

Posted in: Food and Grocery, Philosophy Tagged with: $100 grocery budget, Grocery budget, real life grocery budget, welfare budget

Season of giving?

CF / December 12th, 2011 / No Comments

Brian and I recently attended the Pan Pacific Christmas Wish Breakfast here in Vancouver. It’s a yearly event in Vancouver and one that I have attended before. The idea is simple: You bring a new, unwrapped toy down to the hotel and you get to go have a free breakfast from their buffet afterwards. Yum! For our gifts, I purchased two new puzzles from the dollar store – one geared towards...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: charity, Christmas, Christmas Wish Breakfast, gifts, presents