Negotiation skills are incredibly valuable, whether you’re negotiating a salary in a new job, or even deliberating with your partner about who’s taking the trash out.

If you’re looking to rev up your negotiation skills, then you likely intend to use them to deliberate with a potential new employer. However, your negotiation skills can serve you in many aspects of your life.

In today’s competitive job market, it’s more important than ever to have strong negotiation skills. Whether you’re negotiating your salary, benefits, or other terms of employment, you’ll want to come prepared.

In this article, I’ll share some simple ways you can use negotiation skills in your career, but in other ways as well. I’ll also tell you some of the key negotiation skills I’ve used to succeed in my interviews and in new hire conversations with employers.

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It wasn’t until I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad that I started to believe in the possibility of a FIRE lifestyle (financial independence, retire early).

It was as if a whole new world of possibility had suddenly opened itself up, though I was certainly skeptical of it, at least initially.

Like many others, I’d always believed that a fulfilling life meant a regular 9-5 job, a house with a white picket fence, and a herd of children. It didn’t occur to me before then that there were other ways to live. I’d always believed you had to work hard to earn a reasonable income.

It wouldn’t be until years later that I would begin pursuing a FIRE lifestyle. I wouldn’t even hear “FIRE” spoken as a financial freedom phrase until nearly a decade after I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

In this article, I’ll tell you how I began my journey to a FIRE lifestyle, some key lessons I learned along the way, and where the rest of my journey is headed.

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If you’ve already made a reasonable accommodation request from your employer, then good work! It’s tough to even have the guts to speak up about what you need (I speak from experience).

Ideally, your employer will approve your request outright, however, there is a chance that they may deny it. The law compels your employer to approve your request, assuming it follows ADA guidelines.

However, your employer may deny your request for one of the following reasons:

1. They have fewer than 15 employees and/or can prove the request causes an undue hardship
2. They are unfamiliar with ADA laws
3. Your request has nothing to do with a disability

Whether you’ve already made your request, or you’re preparing for what could happen if your request is denied, this article will give you 7 steps you can use to achieve a better resolution if your reasonable accommodation request is denied.

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If you have a legal disability, then you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation in the workplace, whether your condition is visible or invisible.

It’s tough to live with a health issue that impacts your life in some way, and it can be even tougher to keep working, but for a lot of people, it’s worth the challenge.

If you are a chronic illness warrior and you’re committed to continuing your career, then you may want to request a reasonable accommodation from your employer. That reasonable accommodation might even be just the thing keeping you in the workforce, and if so, you should strongly consider making the request.

In this article, I’m going to provide you with 10 tips to help you request a reasonable accommodation from your employer, plus I’ll provide a few examples of requests you may want to consider making.

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It can be a daunting task to negotiate a salary in your current job, but it’s important to remember that you have the right to ask for what you’re worth. 

If you think you deserve a higher salary, you’re probably right!

In this article, I’m going to give you 10 key tips to help you negotiate a salary in your current job, plus a few resources that you can use to hedge your chances of success at getting a higher salary.

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