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A Set Time To Upgrade Equipment or Not

Usually for myself I often only buy new equipment for specific things if I actually need to. For example, if what I have works like a phone then there really isn’t any need to spend $1000 every year just to get the latest and greatest. For all you know that phone will be outdated and

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Being Too Patient For Company Service

I was thinking today as I shipped a piece of equipment back to a manufacturer about two months ago and they have yet to send it back to me. I am not in a rush so for the most part I didn’t feel like I needed to rush them. However, each time when about three

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Getting Pitched By Your Bank For Consultations

I am not exactly sure why this seems to be happening more recently where I have been receiving a lot of unsolicited calls. At first you may think it’s just a telemarketing call which is common. But in this case it’s actually from some financial advisor from the bank I am with where they seem

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Interesting Rolex Watch Paper Value

Today I just randomly watched this video where apparently a person purchased this Rolex watch way back during 1971 and never worn it. I don’t know the backstory but he apparently brought it to some antique roadshow to essentially sell it seems. After looking through everything the person was given a valuation of about $700,000.

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Spending Years Just To Change Careers

This is probably the most dreaded story of all that people never want to hear when it comes to a career. I was told how there was a person who got the best education that money can buy in a rather technical field where the demand should be there for his skill-set. But he didn’t

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Business

Giving Free Money To Sales Pitch People

Today there was an annual Chinese New Year parade here in Vancouver and I decided to check it out. There are usually people handing out lucky red envelopes where instead of money people usually put candy in them. Would get too expensive giving away one dollar to thousands of people as an example. But that

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