Perhaps this should’ve been the first blog post I posted here on the Abacus Solutions website; admitting mistakes and screwups is hard, though, right? I’m a firm believer, however, in learning from mistakes, and even better, using my mistakes as a tool to prevent others from making those same mistakes. So here goes. As I’ve […]
It seems as if it’s almost every week that we hear of a new hack on a national or internationally-known organization’s customer database, exposing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American’s personally identifiable data to the risk of identity theft. The cost of identity theft to the individual today is multi-fold: it can cost […]
Ahh, 80s pop rock. So synth-y, such big hair. One of my all-time favorite acts was one of these bands, Roxette. I can still remember going to the mall when I was in sixth grade and purchasing Joyride on cassette (!!!); the summer following that purchase, I about wore out that cassette tape, rewinding and replaying my […]
Several months ago, I was rearranging some things in my guest bedroom; on the bookshelf in that room, I came across a book I read many years ago, Smart Women Finish Rich, by David Bach. My older (female) cousin gave me the book after I started my first full-time job, in public accounting, and it basically […]
When the word budget is mentioned, what sort of reaction does it provoke from you? Does it make you feel like a 3-year-old again, when Mom is trying to ruin all of your fun because you can’t stick the fork in the electrical outlet?? Or maybe you just have feelings of being restricted, not allowed to spend […]