Here are two completely unrelated links that echo what’s on my mind lately.

Clay at The Growing Life, in “Project Liberation” pretty much explained the journey I want to take with my career. I’m picking my way along this path more cautiously than he is (no quitting my day job in the near future), but ultimately I agree that “there are many people with odd and/or unique combinations of gifts and talents that may never obtain a well-fitting job. Unless they create it.” I’m one of those people.

My friend Chad, who works in instructional technology, ponders how the sub-prime mortgage crisis has made ripples even in the educational world, in “We Do Not Exist in a Vacuum.” This ties into another topic I’ll be writing about soon, which is how the desire for a strong education, rather than some epidemic of American overconsumption, may have led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

I’d also like to note that after some consideration, I made the decision to add Amazon Associates links to any books I mention here on FinF. I won’t be linking to anything I can’t personally recommend, but do know that if you follow these links and purchase the linked book, I will get a (very small) cut of the sale. We all know I feel pretty negatively about unaffiliated advertising, but I think that this will add to the blog content, rather than subtract from it. I’d love to start turning even a few cents of a profit on this blog, as more and more I feel this is really what I want to do for a living. Let me know how you feel about this decision.

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