21st March 2007

Welcome to Financial Zen.

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Excuse the mess while I work out the coding/layout issues.

I’ve created this site as my personal tracker - there was a lot of inspiration behind it (especially if you read a comment I made and found your way here - thanks for coming, you just came from my inspiration!). I’ll get all those great personal finance/personal hack sites added to the blog roll. I can’t recommend them enough!

Why am I doing this?
I need a place to track my journey and share everything I can about it. I’m in debt, like so many people today, in the usual way - I’ve got credit card debt, paying off student loans, and trying to save for retirement, while trying to balance leading a full life.

Who am I?
I’m 25, a student, married with a puppy and a baby on the way. I’ve had a strong art background which I’ve recently decided to refocus in the areas of finance. I’m not qualified anymore than you are to give advice - keep that in mind with so many sites out there today - I’m not a professional, I’m a student.

What works?
That’s exactly my goal. What does work? Perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t? We shall see.

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  1. 1 On March 22nd, 2007, Golbguru said:

    Glad to see a post here. :) I came by earlier and didn’t see anything and was just about to send you and email about it.

    Good luck on this new venture.
    Btw, when you say a “strong art background” do you mean like paintings (or fine art) or performing art?

  2. 2 On March 22nd, 2007, zen said:

    Thanks, it’s taking me longer than I expected to get everything together, let alone start hashing out some article ideas - but an email to kick me into gear is never frowned upon!

    My “Art Background” began with a lot of painting/drawing in high school, progressed into art studies in college - mainly graphic design, art history, and art appreciation. The kind of lead up to me studying web design in my free time which lead to my current career as a web designer.

    Alas, the soul is fickle, so now I’m studying finance to try and get a better grasp (and because design has become less of a ‘joy’ and more of a ‘chore for work’).

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