Start a business post-layoff: Pink Slip Lemonade or lunacy?

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 [...]

New Pink Slip Lemonade story: Guest blogger Sue West on how she wrote her own next chapter

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 [...]

Starting a business? First, check your personal finances

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 have done [...]