Financial Geekery

Anyone here remember the halcyon days of tech, when AMD offered an 8-week sabbatical after seven years of service? I do! This was back when I was an engineer, and I remember dreaming about how awesome that would be...until I realized that it wasn't outside the realm of possibility to just figure out how to do one myself. Mine was a mini-sabbatical that "just" involved burning 4 weeks of leave all at one go...but that, as crazy as it felt to me at the time, was scratching the

I know the title sounds a bit clickbaity, but it's a question that clients have been asking, so I figure it's worth answering! Having said that, there are a few aspects of that question I want to explore, and then I'll let you figure determine the answer for yourself. As you might guess, it's not as simple as "yes" or "no", and as Westley says in The Princess Bride, anyone who says differently is selling something! First: a recession is always coming. (I feel like Ned Stark w