Career change to self-employed? Get the book “Making a Living Without a Job,” the ultimate guide to inspired, creative self-employment

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 [...]

New Pink Slip Lemonade Story: Wide range of experiences + career path detour culminate in dream job for guest blogger Pamme Boutselis

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 [...]

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 forward [...]

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 end [...]

Health insurance - One monster hurdle to self-employment

If you’ve ever thought about leaving a job with health insurance for part-time work or self-employment, chances are you were stopped short by the challenge of getting affordable coverage. The cost of private health care is so prohibitive, you probably ran screaming back to your day job, thankful at least for that aspect of it.
Having [...]

In business with your better half: fantasy life or financial ruin?

Tough day at the office! Both of you come home raging over the inequities, inefficiencies, and inanity of your workaday lives. This not-uncommon scenario is often the trigger for couples’ conversations about ditching corporate and launching a business together. Sounds like the stuff dreams — and feature articles in Inc. magazine — [...]