How to Skimm Your Life

By: The Skimm

Narrated by: Elise Randall, Danielle Weisberg, Carly Zakin

It might seem like everyone you know took secret classes on budgeting, owning their career, and choosing the right wine—and you were sick that day. Enter: How to Skimm Your Life.

Covering everything from personal finance, to career, to stress management, global politics, and more, this book breaks down some of the less glamorous parts of being an adult, and answers questions like...

• “What's the difference between an ETF and a mutual fund?”
• “How should I negotiate my salary when I'm offered a new job?”
• “Should I claim standard or itemized deductions on my taxes?”
• “How should I tip while traveling abroad?”
• “How do I read the wine list without breaking out a dictionary?”

And much more . . .

How to Skimm Your Life gives you the information you need to make informed and empowered decisions in your life. Whether you're a recent graduate, looking to make a change, or just want to reset, this book will be time well spent.

Includes a PDF of the book's dictionary and additional resources.

Some good parts and some not so good

I do appreciate brevity but I think this was an extreme. Also a lot of the word count was wasted with little titles that were supposed to be clever or funny but they were just repetitive, cliche and confusing. if they had removed all of those then 1/3 of the total word count of the book would have been available for some more sustenance and meat.

But there were definitely some interesting sections. I especially liked the chapter about networking and job hunting and using LinkedIn.

I thought it was funny how the book started off talking about wine and then ended talking about voting, that's totally the Skimms style lol :)

Such a enlightening book!

This book literally has everything you need to know for your adult life. Highly recommended and one of my new favorite reads!

Interesting

Overall it was a good summation of helpful life facts. Though the end was very long in it's explanation of the world and government it was also some of the most helpful and in depth of the sections. Ironically the wine section was without a doubt the dryest section. I enjoyed it overall as a useful refresher in some cases, and informative in other sections.

For a younger generation or for a refresher

I loved the narration of this audio book. The book itself is exactly as titled. This book provides great information to those that did not pay attention in school or that just need a refresher on the details of stuff. From which wines to drink with which foods (drink what you like, but some taste better with certain foods) to details about what makes up our government and about other countries and how they it works in a general sense. It may leave you wanting more to listen to.

informative

informative. will listen to many chapters again. and again and again and again and again