Catching up - financial fiddling
Jan. 25th, 2007 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkOne of the catchup things I did last week was meet with my broker to review my retirement plan, which I manage by a combination of inattentiveness and outright avoidance. Turns out I'm in better shape than many people my age, mostly because I accumulate money by being too disorganized to spend it on the things that it really needs to be spent on, like a new roof. Also, if I stash money away in places where I have to make phone calls or negotiate online forms [see below] to get at it, I just leave it alone.
Of course, meeting with A.J. ended up with new items being added to my list of boring chores to put off, such as selling some stock purchased through the employee stock plan and investing it in IRAs before the tax year closes. Unfortunately, QLogic announced record profits again, which for some reason always makes our stock plummet. [Don't ask me, I'm just an engineer, not a Wall Street analyst.] So now I don't feel much like selling the stock anymore.
So instead of that I guess I'll sweep some of the accumulated cash out of the pathetic money market fund where my brokerage puts extra cash and put that into IRAs. I think I can accomplish this with an email.
I also managed, finally, after 2 days of working at it and with help from a friend (you know who you are) to submit an expense report for my new Franklin planner. *whew* Isn't it amazing how much easier our lives are now that every little HR task is outsourced to a different online service provider? NOT. I miss the days when you just picked up a form in the HR office, filled it out, and turned it in.
Of course, meeting with A.J. ended up with new items being added to my list of boring chores to put off, such as selling some stock purchased through the employee stock plan and investing it in IRAs before the tax year closes. Unfortunately, QLogic announced record profits again, which for some reason always makes our stock plummet. [Don't ask me, I'm just an engineer, not a Wall Street analyst.] So now I don't feel much like selling the stock anymore.
So instead of that I guess I'll sweep some of the accumulated cash out of the pathetic money market fund where my brokerage puts extra cash and put that into IRAs. I think I can accomplish this with an email.
I also managed, finally, after 2 days of working at it and with help from a friend (you know who you are) to submit an expense report for my new Franklin planner. *whew* Isn't it amazing how much easier our lives are now that every little HR task is outsourced to a different online service provider? NOT. I miss the days when you just picked up a form in the HR office, filled it out, and turned it in.
