A Money Blogger’s 5 Deep Dark Secrets

Journey To A Million blog tagged me and a few others today: Adventure Money, Flee the Cube and jcCommerce, so now I’m supposed to reveal 5 things you probably may not know about me…

I’ll give it a shot.

1. I’m a mom of two. On the net, people make the assumption that I’m: (1) geeky, (2) young, and (3) a guy. Maybe it’s because I work around a lot of geeky young men and they may rub off on me a little bit. If you thought that, then you got 1 out of 3 right!
2. I’ve been a software engineer for over 15 years and have actually met Larry Ellison in person, but one of my dreams is to one day be a CFP. Except I’m a little nervous about handling other people’s money only because I’d hate to give anyone a coronary if things don’t go as expected (markets are volatile so that would be often). Gabbing about money here sure is a consolation!
3. I have a digerati spouse who is a serial entrepreneur and I’ve been trying to keep up. I have a couple of acquaintances who were regular field engineers 10-15 years ago, who managed to become founders at successive high tech companies and who have met with tremendous success. Since life took a turn, I have been unable to see them in ages.
4. I used to be really frugal but changed my attitude significantly after I had kids. Feathering the nest takes a lot of resources and all the money I had saved for over 10 years is now fighting to stay in its coffers. This has been one of my biggest challenges of late.
5. I never thought I would ever blog. I’m not really a writer but decided to try it out for market research purposes. I was (and still am) interested in developing business ideas that would address the needs of the blogosphere. This whole blogging thing began to fascinate me and now I’m stuck.

Okay so now that you know a little about me, it’s my turn to tag some of you. Let’s hear it for:

Andy at Thoughtful Consideration

Steve at Steve-Olson.com

Frugal at My First Million At 33

Henry at Binary Dollar

Jeffrey at Personal Finance Advice — oh wait, he’s already revealed himself here so Jeffrey’s excused and in his place I’m tagging

The Sun from The Sun’s Financial Diary

Nice way to get to know our fellow bloggers!

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