Category: sallie mae

The Notebook

If you’ve read this blog for longer than 5 minutes, you’ll know that I’m fairly obsessed with using very simple solutions to achieve, eventually, big results. Some of this is because I dislike all the happy horsesh*t and snake-oil we’re sold in this society, and some of it is because I started this business while…
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July 25, 2013 0

On Selling

Recently, I’ve been working with a lot of new clients (Thank god right, since the cats, like Congress, refuse to work… though they do enjoy eating every five minutes.) in the form of unemployed law school graduates, who now that the bar is over, are starting to realize that Sallie Mae takes no sh*t, so…
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August 9, 2011 0

 The world, as is it’s wont, is changing. Changing in some very drastic ways, and by this I mean: getting a higher degree or a professional license is no longer a guarantee of job stability or a license to print money. (Skeptical? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/business/law-school-economics-job-market-weakens-tuition-rises.html?_r=1&ref=lawschools AND http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html?ref=education those are just two for example; I could find hundreds more.)That’s not to say…
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July 30, 2011 0