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By Anna Paul, CFP®, Investment Adviser, Certified Financial Planner, and Money Coach at Snowball Wealth. I still remember believing that being rich meant you had stairs in your house. Growing up, my family always lived in apartments so any friend that had a two-story home was rich to me. In 2015, I purchased my first

Looking for a new job is really friggin’ hard. It can take a long time (on average 3 to 6 months!), it’s super tedious, and – and this is something we don’t talk enough about – it’s also really emotionally draining. You are putting yourself out there to be judged and that takes courage. And

I love coming up with big ideas, dreaming of the future, envisioning all kinds of possibilities. Following through? A bit trickier. Being consistent? Even harder. I’ve been like this for as long as I can remember; I have a vivid memory from high school of my mother exclaiming (with exasperation), “You just don’t have discipline!”

Office politics. Difficult managers. Catty colleagues. Whether it’s miscommunication, competing agendas, or a mismatch of personalities, sometimes there’s no amount of goodwill and collaboration that can help prevent it. (And sometimes there are company cultures that encourage it.) Unless you’re in an unsafe or toxic environment where you need to look for another job ASAP,

You probably already know the answer to this. There’s a gut feeling you have, deep down inside, that’s been flickering for quite some time. Maybe it’s no longer a flicker but a full-out siren, blaring at you to get the hell out of there. But you’re torn. There are reasons to stay (a steady paycheck,