I haven’t posted in a while because I have been busy working — kind of. I have been out of work for over four months and it is really starting to hurt. I have reached the point where I am doing any odd job for money. For instance I recently pet sat for an employed [...]
About two months ago, in the post Starting a New Adventure, I posted about forming an LLC with a friend as a hedge against the current dismal job market. A lot has happened since then. My friend was able to find a job. He is woefully under-employed but, hey, a job is a job. I, [...]
When you are unemployed as I am you spend a lot of time on the Internet. Much of it is spent looking for a job. Whether it is browsing company career sites, pouring over the latest Monster posts, or trying to network on Linkedin I spend a lot of time on the web looking for [...]
In one of my early posts, Being your own boss, I talked about using this time of unemployment as an opportunity to look at starting your own business. I have a former colleague who did just that. After getting laid off he looked around for something to do to earn some money. What he found was that there [...]
I wrote a couple of posts ago that a friend and I are forming a company to do our own thing. What I found out is that it is surprisingly easy. In the state where I live it is a very simple process. First, you need to decide on a business model. There are several [...]
I know a guy who is an avid sports scuba diver. He grew up on the coast and have been diving most of his life. One of his favorite things while diving is getting lobster. He is also kind of a techie. Recently he combined his techie ability and his diving passion. He created a [...]
I haven’t posted in a couple of days because I have been off following my own advice. I am in the process of starting my own business with a friend. The job market is still dismal and I am not going to sit around for who knows how long waiting for an offer. If one [...]
In my last post I related a story from my friend JT about a guy who was long term unemployed. Well, I was reading a blog entry from Bruce Marler, a former colleague who started his own business serving rural communities with a unique Internet advertising solution. You remember Bruce. I mentioned him in an earlier [...]
I was talking to my friend JT this morning. He was relating a story to me about someone who had been out of work for over a year with no prospects. As I was listening to his story I was thinking, “what is that guy waiting for?” He could have been using that time to do his [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post on being your own boss that I have a former colleague that left a six figure job to do his own thing creating targeted minisites. I got an email from him today linking to an article in DN Journal talking about his new community site business. Bruce had a great idea to target small [...]
