A job hunt is a time-consuming process. It usually takes a few weeks, if not months to land a job. If you want to cut the time to hire and explore all your career opportunities, it’s worth following a job search strategy.
Last week, I raved about the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. These two Stanford design professors have taken design principles and applied them to helping people figure out what they want to be when they grow up.
After advocating Designing Your Life to several friends, two of them suggested that we work through the book’s exercises together. One of those friends is Kim, my long-term girlfriend. The other is Craig, a college classmate. I thought it might be fun to share some of these exercises as we complete them over the next couple of months.
Because I want to respect the intellectual property of the authors, I’m not going to describe the exercises exactly. Instead, I’ll provide a vague overview and then discuss my own answers. (And, when it makes sense, I’ll also include answers from my friends.)
With that out of the way, let’s dive in! Let’s see what happens as I begin the process of designing my life.
Do you have life insurance? Today, I am sharing my Policygenius review to help you find an affordable and easy place to find life insurance.
Life insurance is extremely important.
And, it’s probably something you can easily afford. In fact, many people are able to find life insurance plans for less than $50 a month – there are extremely affordable plans out there!
Yet, many people go without life insurance.
If you’re unfamiliar with what life insurance is, I want to start my Policygenius review by explaining what it is.
See, life insurance is money for your family for when you pass away. If you are the sole or primary earner in your family, then there are probably a lot of people who rely on you financially. And, if you are a stay at home parent, life insurance is still extremely important as well.
The money that comes from life insurance can be used to pay for funeral expenses, day-to-day bills (such as your mortgage or rent), to pay off debt, to hire help for the family (such as a nanny or daycare) , set up college funds, etc.
Think about it like this: If you were to die tomorrow, how would your family be able to cover the bills?
According to the Insurance Information Institute, in 2020, 54% of all people in the US had some sort of life insurance. However, many of those people don’t have enough life insurance coverage. That means their policy likely doesn’t meet the