Showing posts with label self-employment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-employment. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Yee-Hah Pizza, Slice of New York Pizza, or Neither? A fictional short-sh...

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Friday, August 1, 2025

A Garden-Variety Guitar Player: A short-short story

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Friday, July 5, 2024

Self-Employment Choices

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

My Self-Employment Secrets

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Sunday, August 20, 2023

"Should I Try Being Self-Employed?"

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Stories About Work

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Friday, February 24, 2023

To Market? A short-short story

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Should You Be Self-Employed, and how to boost your chances of success

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Even before the economy slowed because of COVID, the shortage of decent-paying, ethical, re...
Friday, December 18, 2020

A Tormented Liberal and a Tormented Conservative Job Seeker

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My career counseling practice isn’t immune from today’s political polarization. While many of m...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The Simple Business Plan

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Amid the COVID economic shutdown, many people have lost their job and are pessimistic they can land another. So they're starting busin...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Self-Employment Ideas in the Time of COVID

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With 42 million Americans having lost their job because of the COVID pandemic, the competition for the small nu...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Low-Risk Business to Start in the Time of Coronavirus

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In just the past four weeks, 22 million people have filed for unemployment, and a good number of them are considering self-employm...
Monday, September 23, 2019

"Should I Be Self-Employed?" A mock career counseling session

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Many people struggle with this dilemma: Should I be self-employed or work for someone else? My PsychologyToday.com article today presents...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Simple Self-Employment: Tips provided in the context of a story

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I’ve written previously on simple self-employment, for example, Low-Risk, High-Payoff Self-Employment. But those articles were in standard...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Starting and Succeeding in Private Practice

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Even though the unemployment rate is the lowest in 50 years, many people are attracted to self-employment.  A particularly intriguing t...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Developing a Business Idea Worthy of Shark Tank

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Seeking to control their destiny, many people would love to come up with an idea and business plan that has a good chance of success with...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Low-Risk, High-Payoff Self-Employment

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  Drawn from my new book, Careers for Dummies, my PsychologyToday.com article today is an Un-MBA for would-be self-employed people. So m...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Senior Self-Employment

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Voluntarily or not, many people 50+ are thrust into retirement but feel they still have job juice and so turn to self-employment. My Ps...
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Short Answers to Common Career Questions: Change Careers? Be Self-Employed?

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As the second in my PsychologyToday.com series:  Short Answers , I offer short-form thoughts on figuring out if you should change careers ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Need an Idea for a Business to Start?

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In my PsychologyToday.com article today , I offer a few of my favorite ideas for businesses to start.