I found a New York Times article on to measure your relative position in prestige, education, income and wealth. Sounds fun so here are my numbers. Occupation: 82th percentile. This is based on a survey of what random people in America thinks is the most prestigious. For someone that frequently get blank stares when I [...]
Saturday Roundup and Carnivals – the class society edition
Published in February 23rd, 2008
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Who else is giving things away?
Published in February 21st, 2008
I few days ago I started filling a donation bag (the pink one in the picture below) with my old roller skates, a chocolate maker, a book, and a vest. After I wrote a post about it, a few people got inspired (see the comments in the aforementioned post) and donated something too. DW might [...]
Saturday roundup and festivals – novocain edition
Published in February 16th, 2008
Posted by Jacob in Announcements
This week I overdosed on novocain at the dentist and almost passed out, reached my threshold for turning earlyretirementextreme.com into a business, and scored 4 goals in a pick up game (personal record). Other than that it was a fairly uneventful week. I bookmarked the following links: Turbotax 2007 premier contest – Generation X Finance [...]
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