DQYDJ is – at times – a personal finance web site. One of the ways I keep it personal is by sharing my asset allocation annually. While you may not particularly care for my family’s money management and personal financial moves, with the topics DQYDJ covers, I need to be transparent. By sharing our broad portfolio allocation, you can […]
Offbeat
The DQYDJ Weekender – June 7, 2020
It’s been a minute since our last Weekender. Unfortunately, since then, tragedy hit our family directly – I lost my grandmother to COVID a couple of weeks ago. It’s the story you’ve sadly heard before – supposedly, a staff member who later tested positive for COVID-19 brought it into her nursing home. They had been locked […]
The DQYDJ Weekender, 4/26/2020: COVID-19 Continues
How are you holding up? I figured today was a good day to write another contemporaneous “journal” entry. These Weekenders have helped me keep my thoughts straight, plus I’ve been getting fantastic feedback and anecdotes from you awesome subscribers. (There are 9,300 of you now!) When this is all over, I hope to go back […]
The DQYDJ Weekender, 4/05/2020
Hey folks! Welcome back to the Weekender. Once again, this one will be dominated by COVID thoughts – skip if you’re overloaded; I’ll be posting more real content in the coming weeks. Let me remind you again: in Weekenders, I shoot more from the hip. In this post are my contemporaneous thoughts on this wild worldwide pandemic. I’ll […]
The DQYDJ Weekender, 3/15/2020: Reflections on the Markets & COVID-19
Back before I moved heavily into Twitter, DQYDJ used to host a regular series called The Weekender. Instead of fully fleshed-out thoughts like Cameron and I (try to) offer with the rest of the posts, Weekenders let us shoot from the hip with quicker reactions and round-ups of events and links. Obviously – besides the frequent trolling there […]
And – Just Like That – He Was Gone: Camo, our Dog
This post isn’t about finance. If you can’t handle the death of a pet, skip this one – we’ll see you next post. Our dog died this weekend. It was recurrent mast cell cancer in the end – but even if it wasn’t, a number of his organs were on the precipice of failure. Camo […]
The First Ten Years of DQYDJ
Where were you ten years ago today? Funnily enough, I know where I was – logged into WordPress for the first time, drafting a blog post about HSA arbitrage. That’s right: 10 years ago today on May 24, 2009 DQYDJ published our very first post. The More Things Change… For the last ten years we’ve […]
Proudly Revealing The Latest DQYDJ Redesign
We’re so proud to announce the latest incarnation of Don’t Quit Your Day Job…. By the time you read these words, our new design has been up for more than 24 hours and served content to over 10,000 people. Executive Summary: Changes on DQYDJ The stylistic changes on the DQYDJ front end are the most […]
The DQYDJ Weekender & Yearly Roundup, 12/31/2017
A Weekender… what? Well, it is the last weekend day of the year. That means you’re in for a treat: a recap of some of the best DQYDJ posts of this year. Perfect for some early morning 2018 reading once this hits your mailbox! The Best DQYDJ Posts this Year United States Income Brackets in […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s Talk Turkey.
In 2016, the venerable turkey (perhaps more accurately currently, vulnerable turkey) clocked in at an average of 30.684 pounds. That’s right – according to data from the USDA and National Agricultural Statistics Service, turkeys are 132% larger than they were in 1929. That year, turkeys clocked in at a mere 13.185 pounds. Pretty stuffed, wouldn’t […]