The New York Times: Business owners are the happiest workers in America, according to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll data collected from January to August. Transportation and manufacturing workers have the lowest overall well-being. Some other observations: – The three occupations with the highest levels of well-being are those with the highest household income. – Self-employed […]
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The Star-Ledger: Mike Velez always starts his day with a bedside prayer, followed by a descent to the kitchen to reheat the coffee his wife has left for him. With the “Today” show on in the background, Velez, 51, begins the numbing process that has defined the past eight months of unemployment: He logs onto
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The Associated Press: First, they had to deal with being laid off. Then the challenge became figuring out how to run a business from a spare bedroom while the kids are fighting and the dog is barking. Many members of the latest generation of entrepreneurs are people who lost their jobs and decided to start
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The Modesto Bee: Stanislaus County workers increasingly are going it alone. They’re creating one-person companies and depending on their own wits to earn a living. About 7 percent of the county’s adults — 25,236 residents — reported income from go-it-alone businesses in 2007, according to tax records accessed by the U.S. Census Bureau. This doesn’t
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The Denver Post: Maureen Russell has three gigs. Hillary Skye works four. And George Peele? He juggles at least five. All of these Front Rangers are fully engaged with an economy that has become stingy with full-time jobs. To make ends meet, they balance part-time gigs. Economists and others who wrestle with employment issues have
Entrepreneur: Colleen Long, a psychologist who specializes in entrepreneurship calls it the “lemonade-stand fear.” “It’s the feeling the entrepreneur first gets when he starts any kind of business: the feeling that he’s operating a lemonade stand, this low-budget operation that doesn’t feel real,” she says. As a small business, especially during the startup stages, there’s
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The Wall Street Journal: Perhaps the greatest advantage of hanging out your own shingle or making that consulting business full-time is the independence that comes with being your own boss. But higher expenses and other costs come along with your newfound liberty. You may not be able to sock away as much pretax for retirement,
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Entrepreneur: You can choose either to do the organizing work or to come in to a home and consult on the things the homeowner could do to better organize. Have a portfolio of different organizational scenarios in different rooms in the home and talk with the homeowner about the style he or she likes. Create
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Entrepreneur: In many parts of the country, this business tends to be seasonal, but you can find ways around that. Rent a storage unit and offer to store people’s bicycles over the winter after you do a tune-up and any needed repairs on them. If you want to cater to the Lance Armstrong wannabes, you
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photo credit: emilio labrador We all use to dream when we were little about being fireman, lawyers, doctor’s, etc. But there comes a point in most of our lives when we start dreaming about being our own boss, who wouldn’t want to be? If your considering becoming your own boss, below are some of the
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