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TL;DR: Financial Literacy for Members of Nebraska School Employees Retirement System: Optimizing Financial Decisions Based On Your NPERS Benefits
You know you need to learn more about personal finance in order to make financial decisions, but you just find it too overwhelming, too intimidating, and too time consuming. This book was written for you, giving you the basics in an hour or two, and then directing you to further resources (fischlearning.com/tldr-nebraska) if you’d like to learn more. It’s about 100 pages and should take only an hour or two to read, so instead of TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) it will hopefully be JR;DR;KM (Just Right, Did Read, Know More).
This book isn’t about “getting rich quickly” (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but it’s about gaining knowledge and building your capacity in order to live a good life. What’s a “good life”? I don’t know, everyone’s definition is different. What’s important is that you take the time to define what a good life is for you, and then align your financial decisions with that. The goal of this book is to help you think about your finances in such a way that you have the independence to lead the life you want to live; to give you as much control as possible over your financial situation so that your finances don’t prevent you from living the life you want.
I say “book” because that’s what Amazon calls it, but it’s more like a really long blog post. I wrote it because finances and financial decisions are such a huge part of everyone’s life that they should take the time to thoroughly educate themselves. Since many folks won’t do that, this book is an attempt to quickly give them the basics and hopefully encourage them – and give them the confidence – to learn more.
Part 1 of this book is applicable to everyone, but Parts 2-4 are specifically for employees of Nebraska public schools. These parts take a medium dive into both your NPERS and your school district benefits, and how you can optimize your finances based on those benefits. Most Nebraska educators are not fully aware of their NPERS benefits and how that should impact almost all of their other financial decisions throughout their adult lives. This book will help you make those decisions.
Full Disclosure: I am not a financial planner. I have no formal training in personal finance or investing, and no certifications. I am simply a lifelong learner, constantly curious, and have been interested in personal finance since working in a credit union during high school and college. I have continued to learn about finances my entire adult life and have frequently served as a resource for friends, family and colleagues. I somehow became the "go to" guy in my high school for other educators who had questions about school district benefits, Colorado PERA (Colorado’s pension plan), and just finances in general. Partially as a result of that experience, I see the necessity for a book such as this, so I wanted to do my part to try to help Nebraska educators become financially literate and optimize their financial lives based on their pension benefits.
While it would be nice to make a little bit of money from this, that’s not really my expectation or my goal. This is a passion project for me. I hope you find it helpful.
So, about 115 pages. Maybe a couple of hours. Let’s get started.
This book isn’t about “getting rich quickly” (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but it’s about gaining knowledge and building your capacity in order to live a good life. What’s a “good life”? I don’t know, everyone’s definition is different. What’s important is that you take the time to define what a good life is for you, and then align your financial decisions with that. The goal of this book is to help you think about your finances in such a way that you have the independence to lead the life you want to live; to give you as much control as possible over your financial situation so that your finances don’t prevent you from living the life you want.
I say “book” because that’s what Amazon calls it, but it’s more like a really long blog post. I wrote it because finances and financial decisions are such a huge part of everyone’s life that they should take the time to thoroughly educate themselves. Since many folks won’t do that, this book is an attempt to quickly give them the basics and hopefully encourage them – and give them the confidence – to learn more.
Part 1 of this book is applicable to everyone, but Parts 2-4 are specifically for employees of Nebraska public schools. These parts take a medium dive into both your NPERS and your school district benefits, and how you can optimize your finances based on those benefits. Most Nebraska educators are not fully aware of their NPERS benefits and how that should impact almost all of their other financial decisions throughout their adult lives. This book will help you make those decisions.
Full Disclosure: I am not a financial planner. I have no formal training in personal finance or investing, and no certifications. I am simply a lifelong learner, constantly curious, and have been interested in personal finance since working in a credit union during high school and college. I have continued to learn about finances my entire adult life and have frequently served as a resource for friends, family and colleagues. I somehow became the "go to" guy in my high school for other educators who had questions about school district benefits, Colorado PERA (Colorado’s pension plan), and just finances in general. Partially as a result of that experience, I see the necessity for a book such as this, so I wanted to do my part to try to help Nebraska educators become financially literate and optimize their financial lives based on their pension benefits.
While it would be nice to make a little bit of money from this, that’s not really my expectation or my goal. This is a passion project for me. I hope you find it helpful.
So, about 115 pages. Maybe a couple of hours. Let’s get started.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 14, 2022
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