If you're facing uncertainty in your current job, personal finance contributor Christopher Liew offers some tips on building an emergency savings plan, upping your skills and expanding your network to make your job search smoother.
Losing a job can be overwhelming, both emotionally and financially, requiring you to pivot and make calculated changes to get your life and finances back on track.
If you haven’t done so already, you should also begin contributing to an emergency savings fund. Ideally, you should have enough money saved in your emergency fund to cover at leastof bills and living expenses. I would take that even further and say don’t stop contributing to your emergency fund until you have six months’ worth of expenses saved.
By contacts, I’m not just talking about your friends who you go out with on the weekend. While these individuals can still be valuable resources, you should also look to build your network of professional contacts who work in different positions and with different companies. Christopher Liew is a CFA Charterholder and former financial advisor. He writes personal finance tips for thousands of daily Canadian readers atStrategies for mitigating the negative mental health effects of social media tend to focus on reducing time spent scrolling, according to a B.C. researcher, who says there may be a way to limit the harm without logging off.
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