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The other day I was looking back at my writing of a year ago and realized it has been exactly a year since I quit my job. 

Yes, I quit. In a terrible economy, with high unemployment, I willingly chose to leave.

I have never regretted quitting, but even now it’s interesting to look back on why it was the right decision for me at the time. 

As a new year approaches, there are probably many people out there working in jobs they don’t love and wondering if there isn’t something better somewhere else.  Before quitting, however, it’s important to properly evaluate whether it’s really time.   Read more

 

Hard to believe another Autumn is upon us and the beginning of the holiday season already here. 

This Thanksgiving our team is especially grateful for so very much: Read more

“Freelance Entrepreneur” might sound like an oxymoron, but freelancing is entrepreneurship at its most basic. Entrepreneurship means taking risks with your income, your career, your security in the service of innovation.   Read more

No matter what industry or field you work in, whether you work for a multinational corporation, a mom-and-pop storefront or in your home office, you are an entrepreneur. Congratulations!  Read more

 

This week entrepreneurship is being celebrated in 123 countries engaging more than 10 million current and aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011.  Entities such as The Kaufman Foundation and EO are helping the world learn how entrepreneurs are driving the change we need to overcome these challenging times.  By coming together to share their collective experience, participating entrepreneurs will inspire and support the next generation of entrepreneurs.  Read more

 

As a freelancer, I found myself presented with a rather unattractive job offer this past week and ended up thinking a lot about negotiating and how I wanted to handle the situation. I would like to close the deal and have some additional work – but was I willing to compromise significantly to make it happen? I decided to do some research about successful negotiating and found some pretty useful tips for anyone who might be searching for a job or freelance work: Read more

We’ve written quite a few articles on how to use LinkedIn for your creative job search and thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place. Read more

If you’re on a job search, you’re already probably spending a lot of time on the internet.

We’ve already talked about how LinkedIn can help your search. But there is a less formal social media platform that can have just as significant an impact—Twitter. Read more