Perhaps this is counter-intuitive? In this era of frantic, ever accelerating pace-of-life, it’s crucial to make every minute count, even when running a simple errand.
Looking for a specialized organic tincture today, I had my daughter with me and knew I couldn’t spend the day meandering from place to place on the off chance somebody had [...]
Don’t get desperate: “Make Money Fast with Google” schemes are scams
Remember what we’ve talked about in this blog previously: when going the self-employment route, your best shot at success is through sticking to what you know. If you are an out-of-work janitor, you have a better shot starting a cleaning company (or some periphery service) than being a daytrader or an internet marketer.
With the economy [...]
…and we’re back.
SelfEmployment.ca is back. Given that we’re in the midst of the single biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression, there are bound to be more people looking to self-employment as a vehicle toward their own economic security.
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Everybody wants to be a work-from-home Internet start-up
We can’t all be self-employed webmasters, although I’m sure we’ll all use the internet as a tool to further our businesses. But I think people who are outside the industry seem to liken “the internet” as a type of Shangra-La place where the streets are paved with gold and everybody can launch an internet start-up [...]
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What exactly is “bogus self-employment” anyway?
That is what I find myself wondering as I read this warning from UK unions that “the exchequer was losing around £5bn a year through bogus self-employment – the equivalent of 20 new hospitals.”. The spurious translation of the opportunity cost into hospitals aside (which likely wouldn’t be built had the extra taxes been collected [...]
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