Welcome to my inaugural post at MoneyGrubbingLawyer.com! I have been writing about finance-related topics on a number of other sites and forums (fora?) under various pseudonyms for a while now, so the time has finally come to settle down and collect my thoughts in one place.
The premise behind this site and my abridged bio can be found on the About page, but in the spirit of personal finance blogs I’ll share a few of the more gory details here. I am originally from just outside St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. I received an Arts degree in 2002 and my Law degree in 2005. In my last year of law school, my wife and I got married and bought a house in St. John’s. Following graduation, I moved back Newfoundland and articled with one of the big regional firms, carving out a niche in technology and intellectual property law. After about three years I found the long hours, mediocre pay, endless stress and generally dysfunctional nature of private practice to be costing me more than it was worth, so I made the jump to a different position that allowed a better lifestyle and a possible regrowth of my soul.
Financially, my biggest challenge has been my student debt- upon graduation from law school, it was in the range of $100,000. Over the past few years I have managed to substantially reduce this debt, but a sizeable portion still remains. However, my net worth is finally back in the black, and this site details how I plan to keep things moving in that direction while still living well.
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Dear Messr. Hickey,
I guess your really not the ‘other Hickey’ I thought you were. It seems ole RJ was
dragged to the bar back in 92. In your case, you ‘only’ were annointed in 2005, and
then the holy water appears to have dissolved a few years later. :o)
You now claim to have woken up to a new reality, a new beginning. Good on ya !
I trust your doing something now that brings you and your Mrs. joy and peace of mind
rather than the true MGL’s of this world.
I like your style , in any event. You strike the right set of cords in the human condition.
I liked your submission on winter in Newfieland, although I can’t say I ever enjoyed the privilege. Nor can I say I ever experienced seeing anyone writing their name in the snow with their own pee. I’d surely love to see a woman or two try that maneouver. Hell ! I’d pay money to see it. :o) Picture this, the grinding and ”roundabouts’ by femme fatale swirling and gyrating those spread hips, all in an effort to write - let’s say- LINDA in the snow. Better have the paddles and paramedics handy because I think I would either pee my own pants laughing or joyous beyond belief that I’d suffer a massive coronary attack.