Day Learning Design

👩‍🏫 I build & deliver technical enablement programs to software users globally
💻 Skillset: Agile project management & Instructional design
📝 ATD Author
📖 Bonafide Bookworm

Category: Personal Finance

  • 2025 – Personal Achievements

    Kicking off my 2026 by taking a look back at some personal highlights of 2025.

  • Job Security

    My favorite advice from Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus is that we can’t control what happens around us, we can only control our reaction.

  • Actively Manage Your Money

    Leaving teaching and transitioning to a corporate L&D job came with a salary bump, as well as a wider variety of financial benefits and offerings as part of my total…

  • Career Changer Rollovers

    One effect of job hopping or changing careers is that you could have multiple retirement accounts floating around out there.

  • Become an Instructional Designer on a Budget

    How expensive is it to transition from teaching to instructional design? It doesn’t have to break the bank. I made my transition for a few hundred dollars.

  • Part 4: Transitioning Jobs on a Tight Budget

    Being the frugal budgeter that I am, pinching pennies whilst training up to become an instructional designer came naturally to me.

  • Part 3: Leveraging an Emergency Fund to Switch Careers

    I would need to independently fund my own unemployment. There were a couple of months between jobs where I didn’t have any income because I immersed myself in job hunting…

  • Part 2: Getting Out of Debt for Personal and Professional Freedom

    I had been abroad for 6 years and had buried my head DEEP in the sand when it came to my personal finances. Even though I was making good money,…

  • Part 1: Financing a Job Transition

    Transitioning jobs can be a strain financially. For my next couple of posts, I want to discuss my financial situation because personal finance is a topic I am VERY interested…

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McKenzie Day builds learning programs in tech by aligning project teams around a shared vision and relentlessly prioritizing value for the customer.