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 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 [...]
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 [...]
