Starting a biz? Before you “take this job & shove it”, read this…

Quitting your job to start a business remains the American dream for many.   And thanks to Johnny Paycheck’s hit song “Take This Job and Shove It“, many of us have been humming the tune and playing out the scenario in our minds since 1977. But even if you are 100% sure you have a “can’t fail” idea for a business, [...]

Find the $ to change careers, Part 2: 7 more tips from career expert @myreinventure & me

Founder of Aspire!, Randi Bussin In Part 1 of the series, career expert Randi Bussin and I teamed up to give you 8 tips for managing your cash flow before and after your career transition.  Part 2 covers managing debt, benefits and taxes during your career change. Randi Bussin, CCMC, CPBS, MBA, is a Career Reinvention [...]

Relo plans? Salary.com Cost-of-Living calculator a big help @MySalary

If you’re Beta testing a career change that involves relocation, use the Cost-of-Living Wizard on Salary.com to help you estimate the impact on your financial plan. Just plug in your current salary, current work and home locations, and the new locations, to see usable stats on how much you’ll have to earn to maintain your standard of living [...]

Find the $ to change careers: 8 tips from career expert Randi Bussin & me

Dreaming of reinventing your professional self?  Does that dream include a cut in pay?  Yeah, right!  But, for many, it may be the reality, at least temporarily.   So how do you make your dream career happen anyway?? Career expert Randi Bussin and I teamed up on this article to provide some answers to just that question.  The [...]

Just what does a career change cost?? Part 2 – Examples

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes… Every year, trees do it beautifully. For them, change comes at little or no cost. The same is true for some lucky career changers, who happen to want a change that doesn’t require a major investment in additional education or business start-up costs, a big pay cut, a period of under- or unemployment, or [...]

Recipe for Pink Slip Lemonade: excellent, up-to-the-minute article on layoff survival

Wow!  If you are a layoff victim or likely candidate, you owe it to yourself to click on this link.  While you might think Good Housekeeping magazine a source more likely to publish a recipe for Pink Slip Lemonade (the drink) than for Pink Slip Lemonade (the layoff financial recovery strategy), author Kate Ashford has [...]

Making Pink Slip Lemonade: First, add water

It’s sunny, dry, and brutally hot.  The perfect day for Pink Slip Lemonade, you might argue, if you were imagining yourself poolside at an all-inclusive resort in Palm Springs, or in your own backyard in the dog days of August, surrounded by friends and family.  But what if instead you found yourself, as Man vs. [...]

My career change story: From layoff lemons to Pink Slip Lemonade – Part I

It’s been nearly a decade, but the image remains vivid. Blue carpet-covered cube farm walls in a 100-year-old converted textile mill building. Logo wear, commemorative paperweights, and other artifacts of more carefree times scattered about. The sound of no work being done as we all hovered around the water cooler with bated breath…  Being on the receiving [...]