"Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
May 1st 2014, 2:46 am
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Re: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
Plan on your wife taking at least 6 months to find a job and earning $0 during that time.
Around $30k in savings to bring with us. Might invest it for a few years, maybe a vanguard account? Not sure whether to keep this in UK on 1.3% interest p/a or move with us to USA.
May 1st 2014, 2:58 am
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May 1st 2014, 3:06 am
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Re: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
May 1st 2014, 3:24 am
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Re: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
May 1st 2014, 8:41 am
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Re: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
we will have about $5k-$6k cash for various costs in first few months. Our 2 months apartment has already been paid for by work anyway to that should help.
May 1st 2014, 9:27 pm
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Re: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
Added that a EAD has an expiration date, it does tend to scare off HR people, even if it is a renewable document.
But fair play if someone gets a job lined up quickly, that's good going.
But fair play if someone gets a job lined up quickly, that's good going.
May 1st 2014, 10:13 pm
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Re: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" - so here is mine
Depends on the demographic. Unemployment is higher in women than men, higher in "minorities" than white, higher in unskilled than professional, higher in young and close-to-retirement than mid-career. The long term unemployed are concentrated in certain overlapping groups from the above list.
