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Imagine how empowering it would feel to spend your working hours doing a job that truly invigorates your mind, body and soul. To get there, you may well need to be willing to fire your boss -- But you can get there.

While the pains and pressures of this year's tax season are fresh in your mind, give some thought to next April 15. Here are five tips from the personal finance pros for making next year's tax filing season less stressful and more monetarily rewarding.

Early tax filers helped boost Intuit's revenues 8% in the second quarter and raise its outlook for 2010, sending the stock up $2.40 or nearly 8% on Friday.

The headlines were unequivocal: The New York Daily News screamed "Wanna make more money? Try growing a mustache." NBC News went with the more authoritative, "Study: Men With Mustaches Make More Money." In India, The Deccan Chronicle offered: "People with mustache are paid well." And Iran Daily...

When one bank fee dies, another one is born to fill its place; so what's a consumer to do? Well, thanks to technology, keeping on top of your accounts and locating a nearby surcharge-free ATM is as easy as updating your Facebook status. With ATM fees rising and bank fees as a whole on the rise,...

I get a lot of surveys sent to me. Some of them are actually interesting. Digital Insight just released one. It's a company that provides banking services to mid-market banks and credit unions, and is owned by Intuit, the company that makes Quicken and TurboTax and other financial and software...

Intuit, the makers of Quicken, announced it is purchasing Mint.com, a rival personal finance Web site, for $170 million.According to the announcement on The Quicken Blog, by joining the two companies will be able to better achieve their common goal to "help consumers do more with their money with...

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer sell its semi-popular personal finance program Microsoft Money. The announcement no doubt brought fear to many Money users who have years, possibly decades, of financial information wrapped up in an encrypted and proprietary file. While a...

How confident would you feel in your finances if you could click one button and see what your bank statement would look like for the next month taking into account all of your bills paychecks and credit card payments? It sounds pretty good, almost too good; but that's exactly what you can do with...