Category Archives: Self Employment
Charting Your Voyage Out of the Rat Race
It’s all in the finances. If you want to escape from your day job, all it really takes is an ability to earn more than you can reasonably expect to live on per month. Part of making “The Great Office Escape” is having an understanding of your financial picture, and in order to do this, [...]
Knowing What to Charge Clients for Freelance Work
When you get a new job, the whole money thing is laid out for you in a nice, little package called a salary. $40,000 a year plus stock in the company. $55,000 a year and benefits. $8 an hour and pennies from the tip jar divided six ways with your fellow barristas while serving coffee-starved, [...]
Are you an Entrepreneur, or are you “Just” Self-Employed?
Entrepreneur. Solopreneur. Self-Employed. Small Business Owner. I throw a lot of terms around that, when looked at objectively, might mean something similar. But in many ways an entrepreneur is no more a small-business owner than a pig is a slice of bacon. A slice of bacon once was part of a pig but a pig [...]
New Workplace Trends: 9 to 5 is So Last Decade!
I have an old friend who works as a software engineer. He holds the same position with the same company as he did over five years ago. His salary has increased steadily each year. Coming from a traditional family where his father valued hard work ethics, integrity, and professional stubbornness, my friend was ecstatic to [...]
How to Find Legitimate Telecommuting Jobs
When I was starting out in the freelance web development business one of the biggest obstacles I kept stumbling over was the pervasiveness of “garbage jobs” and junky “job search engines” that clogged the internet. At the time I needed to be able to find remote work from real businesses and clients. During my initial [...]
The Self Employment Test
Do you have what it takes to be self-employed? Take this short test to find out! Note that there is a difference between being self-employed, the owner of a business, a wise investor, and otherwise financially self-directed. For the purposes of this test, all fit in the same category of “not collecting a regular paycheck.” [...]
10 Reasons Why Self-Employment Beats Traditional Employment
In a very “employment-centric” economy where people are, on average, far more concerned about keeping the jobs they have or finding a job, the idea of going solo seems scarier than ever. But the truth is, self-employment can be a wonderful solution to dealing with a job loss or suffering economy! It’s sometimes strange to [...]
The Greatest Networking Secret
Raise your hand if you are looking for work. Ok, great. Now raise your hand if you are looking for better ways to network. Ok, you can put your hands down. You are sitting at your computer (or looking at your iPhone) and I bet you look kind of silly. Either way, the road to [...]
6 Friendly Cities for Entrepreneurs
Trying to make a go of it on your own? Here are six cities that may give you slightly better than average odds if you are looking to start a business. While in general it is far more important that you have a good business idea and plan than a good location, in this case [...]
Separating Your Business from Yourself
As stated in my earlier article, 5 Things You Should Never Do When Starting a Business, you are not your business! This common mistake made by many of the newly self-employed can cause all kinds of issues later on. When you begin a business, you will want to separate yourself (as an entity) from this [...]
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