Amid the economy’s many ailments, some good news has remained mostly off the radar: The at-home work force is growing, and it is encompassing new occupations ranging from radiology and nursing to auditing and teaching, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. The bad news: Fierce competition means your odds of landing one […]
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QUIT your day job? To some craft enthusiasts that is just the name of a popular blog on Etsy, the fast-growing Web site that serves as a marketplace for crafts and vintage goods, according to a story at The New York Times. But to Yokoo Gibran, it was an epiphany. Gibran, who is in her
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Betsy Hiebert is a wife, mom and grandmother in Manitoba, Canada. She holds several part-time jobs, but the oddest one is an acting gig (of sorts). Hiebert plays a patient at a teaching hospital, reports WalletPop. I’m given a script to follow,” says Hiebert. “I have to act as a patient with specific ailments, and
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Not real storks, mind you. Rather, wooden or plastic stork signs alerting everyone that a baby’s just been born, reports WalletPop. Amy Stone, 40, never dreamed she’d find herself involved in such a quirky niche market, especially after her career as an executive for Federal Express, but the Memphis, Tenn. resident needed to do something
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The New York Times has a story about a man with an interesting ‘job’. For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own count, nearly half a million dollars’ worth of discarded winning tickets from wagers on thoroughbred races across the
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Suzanne Plafcan couldn’t find real-estate space for her Clix Portrait Studio franchise right away, reports Entrepreneur. So instead of waiting, she opened just the event-photography side of the business in March 2008. “It turned out to be the best thing I could have ever done,” she says. It allowed her to keep costs down by
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Wish you had a little more money in your wallet these days? Who doesn’t? CNNMoney reports while the Great Recession is over by most accounts, the Great Income Squeeze lingers on. You’re more likely to have had a pay freeze than a pay raise over the past year; and the average bump up for 2010
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BusinessWeek reports that more than half of all U.S. businesses are based at home. These companies often are dismissed as quaint hobbyist ventures, but new research suggests that’s a mistake. An estimated 6.6 million home-based enterprises provide at least half of their owners’ household income. Together these “homepreneurs” employ one in 10 private-sector workers, and
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Inc.: Many solopreneurs feel the tug between personal obligations and their business. The question appears to be, how do we divide our time, become more productive, and let go of the guilt? There are ways to to achieve this. 1. Get things out of your head and onto paper; it helps to decrease your mental
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GetEntrepreneurial.com: The home-based startup story has a certain magic to it that often glosses over the particulars: where to set up office equipment (computer, printer, copier,etc.), whether or not you should dedicate a business phone line or switch your VoIP service to include “follow” features so you’re always available, and how many hours you should
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