Writing about investing might seem like a strange tangent for an EFL writer. But, I’ve written across a lot of genres outside EFL: parenting, travel, food, cycling, romance, erotica … guess which one landed me in a scandal reported in El Pais?
Risk-taking chicken … this phrase struck really struck me, sparked by a Facebook conversation about investing – or more specifically, NOT investing – with a fellow ELT-er who wasn’t ready to learn about it. It really resonated with me because I think I’m both a chicken and a risk-taker too. Before I had children, I never stayed … Read more
That salary we work and train so hard to earn could not only be adding to our income (which, let’s face it, isn’t always enhanced significantly by the CPD we attain) but could be funding further CPD if some of it is invested and earning money for us.
This month is a major investing anniversary for me. It’s when I started asking the question “Shouldn’t I be doing something with my savings? And if so …what?”
In ELT we know lots of words that collocate with “money” but some of them are in our active vocabulary while the most important one of all lags behind.
