Millennial couple's 6 income streams bring in $420,000 a year
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Eddie Nuñez emigrated from Peru to the U.S. at age 14 in 2002. Through his nearly 4,000-mile journey, he imagined starting a family and giving them the life he never had.
Once he arrived, that mission of starting and supporting his own family drove him to achieve his goals, and then some. Two decades later, Nuñez and his wife Stefani Nicole Penaranda now have two children and six streams of income in Lucketts, Virginia.
They own a snowplow business and seven real estate properties. Penaranda runs a day care center and is a real estate agent, while Nuñez works in IT consulting and as a cybersecurity contractor.
Last year, their jobs and businesses brought in a total of $420,000, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.
"Coming from Peru, I always knew that money was important, and you only get as far as your efforts," says Nuñez, now 34. "I wanted to provide [my family] with everything that I didn't get to enjoy as a child."
Eventually Nuñez wants to buy at least two more businesses, as well as 20 more properties to rent out. But just because he's ambitious doesn't mean he isn't satisfied, he says.
"I'm grateful for my mom and my wife," Nuñez says. "Life's not easy, but it's definitely given me good opportunities to be present in my kids' daily lives. … I'm super happy to be able to actually achieve that goal, to provide them with the lifestyle I didn't have as a child."
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Get Ahead: The best way to answer 'tell me about yourself,' says CEO
"Tell me about yourself."
It's one of the most common — and deceptively difficult — job interview questions. While it's seemingly an icebreaker, hiring managers also use this question to evaluate your confidence and get a pulse on your goals and priorities.
"When you're interviewing for a job, you're marketing yourself," says William Vanderbloemen, the CEO of executive search firm Vanderbloemen Search Group. "The best kind of marketing tells the truth, it's concise and engaging."
Your response to this question should be like a mini elevator pitch highlighting one of your strengths, a relevant past experience and why you're excited about this job.
"When I ask candidates to tell me about themselves, I'm looking for self-awareness," says Vanderbloemen. "The standout candidates are the ones who also show me where their strengths lie, the kind of work they naturally gain energy from."
It's important to tailor your response to the specific job you are interviewing for, focusing on the skills and experience that are most relevant.
Ultimately, Vanderbloemen says, "If you can show the interviewer why you're wired a certain way, and how that lines up with the role's expectations, you'll wow them."
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This former CEO cut her 70-hour workweek down to 30 with 3 productivity hacks |
In her early 30s, Tanya Dalton was building her first company, working 12- to 14-hour days, and raising two young kids. She had impossibly long to-do lists and an overflowing calendar.
"I was wearing myself out, exhausting myself and then wondering why I was so tired but still so unsatisfied," Dalton says. "I'd go to bed at night, and I would feel like, 'Why didn't I get more done?'"
Over the past six years, Dalton has been hacking her workflow. She now works only until 3 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and still gets everything done.
Here are her top three strategies to boost productivity:
Trade your Pomodoro timer for actual breaks: Instead of the Pomodoro technique's recommended 25 minute blocks of work and five minutes of rest, Dalton advises designating larger chunks of time for work — and consequently, bigger blocks for rest, too. She recommends working for 60 to 90 minutes, and no more than two hours at a time, before taking a break.
Measure your productivity in tasks not hours: Dalton recommends "tossing your to-do list" and replacing it with what she calls a "priority list," which has just five to seven tasks, ordered by importance. You may end up getting fewer tasks done, but you're likely to cross off the items that truly matter.
Check in regularly: Dalton sets an appointment with herself once every quarter as a time for personal reflection. She assesses where she is in her life, whether she likes it and what she should change.
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