There’s one inherent advantage to being a full time, salaried employee that the self-employed rarely talk about: Even when you’re unproductive, you’re still earning money.
If you’re a full time employee, you probably just laughed to yourself. If you’re a freelancer or a self-employed entrepreneur, that knot in your stomach is the realization that [...]
You’re a freelancer and you work from home, or have your own business, you work odd hours, probably long hours, and if you’re just getting started, you can expect it will be like this at least for the next couple of months.
It takes time to build a profitable business, have everything up and running, find [...]
Work at home doesn’t mean what it used to. Back in the olden days (yep, even older than me) there was this thing called the cottage industry. I won’t bore you with definitions, but suffice it to say that it has nothing to do with cottage cheese - unless, of course, you be making the [...]
It doesn’t matter what you do for a living, chances are there are times where you find your work stressful. Even worse, if you are like most Americans, the line between your work and “home” has been invariably blurred due to changing demographics and improvements in communications technology.
The NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and [...]
There has always been a consensus that entrepreneurs think differently than the average Joe; however, it was not until fairly recently that the root of this “entrepreneurial thinking” was identified.
Saras D. Sarasvathy, in her study, “What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?” examined the reasoning of 30 founders of companies, ranging in size from $200 MM to $6.5 [...]
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We just launched, and we’re happy to have you here, please take some time to [...]
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