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THE CAREER CHANGE FINANCIAL PLANNERBreak Away Without Going Broke (SM) |
Now that Higher Ed month is over and in keeping with the week’s theme (Labor Day), I can share the news I’ve been wanting to tell since August 25: The newly revised version of Making A Living Without A Job, by Barbara Winter, is on the bookshelves now!
If you’re a career changer who’s recently started [...]
This insightful career change story comes from guest blogger and one-time client of mine, Michael Donahoe, CFP®, now a financial planner himself, and principal with On Course Financial Group, LLC, of Portland, ME.
I just passed the four year anniversary of when I left corporate America and headed out on my own. Since making the move [...]
Everywhere I turn, I keep stumbling across the concept “We’re all self-employed now.” Maybe this is the result of that phenomenon whereby once you buy, say, a Honda CRV or a Litespeed bike, you notice that everyone on the road seems to have one. Or maybe not.
In any case, I recently heard it used in the context of [...]
This story of making Pink Slip Lemonade from layoff lemons comes from guest blogger Pamme Boutselis of TrackAhead.com, an education and career focused social network launching later this summer.
The phone call came mid-morning on my first day back from vacation in early August ‘08. I had just inked the contract for my daughter’s upcoming wedding [...]
I did it. So have plenty of others. Should you??
“It” is start a business after being laid off. And the answer is a definite “it depends.” If you’ve been thinking about and planning for this for some time, maybe the layoff was just the push you needed to find the courage to make a go [...]
This story of making Pink Slip Lemonade from layoff lemons comes from guest blogger Sue West of Space4U professional organizing services.
What’s your next chapter in your life? Seems to me that’s what creating pink slip lemonade is all about. Take the best from your past, include what you love from the present, and move forward [...]
In one of my favorite cartoons about cubicle life, Dilbert squashes Wally’s dream of becoming a high-flying entrepreneur and “living life on the edge” with the observation “You know they stop paying you if you quit your job.” Wally responds wisely to this keen insight with “Oh, never mind.” While most of us [...]
