As I’ve mentioned before, I once worked at Legg Mason (NYSE: LM), a stock brokerage and money management firm with headquarters in Baltimore. I was quite young when I worked there - I celebrated my 23rd and 24th birthdays while an employee at “Legg”, as we called it - and I didn’t know much about […]

One of the best resources out there for job seekers and those interested in the employment industry in general is Secrets of the Job Hunt by C.M. Russell. His recent post linking to the JibberJobber blog offers a great illustration of exactly how savvy job seekers can leverage the power of the Web and […]

This web site, insourced.com, is the latest in a run of several web-based businesses that have managed to adequately compensate us for almost nine years. We have executed several unique business models that have resulted in various levels of success during that period. I enjoy the autonomy that self-employment provides and I’ve been heard to […]

Everyone knows that the golf course is one of the best places to create new business relationships and cultivate existing ones. The strategic thinking required to enjoy golf is similar to that required to excel in business, and the connection has always been a natural one. Unfortunately, we don’t all have the time and the […]

From time to time at Insourced, we will forego the standard article format to bring our readers an interview of a friend, associate or acquaintance with a particularly interesting job or work experience. For this week, we’ve interviewed Beth Joy, a former Visual Merchandising Manager at the well known Macy’s department store who started her […]

This awful/classic late 80s comedy was recently on one of my over-priced “premium” cable movie channels and Allison opted to watch it in lieu of the 17th consecutive airing of Wedding Crashers on another station. Fair enough. I hadn’t sat through an entire Bernie’s since ‘89 and I was half-reading something anyway. […]

If you follow sports at all, you certainly know by now that Reggie Bush, standout running back at the University of Southern California, Heisman Trophy winner and first-round draft choice of the New Orleans Saints, allegedly received financial benefits while attending USC. This is, of course, a violation of NCAA terms and may strike his […]

If you weren’t one of the lucky ones to have purchased a home prior to the most recent nationwide housing boom, you likely look at current home prices, even after a slight downturn, with a trepidation that borders on outright anxiety. A combination of factors at work in the nationwide economy has unleashed a chain […]

The vast majority of the job seekers floating about on the major job boards and employment web sites today can be categorized as white collar. Typically, these are office employees – IT professionals, accountants, financial specialists, administrative personnel – that are currently employed but often looking to improve their employment situations for a variety […]

During the summer after graduation from college, I intentionally put off entering the real world. I knew I didn’t want to be working for a big company, but aside from that, I had no real idea of what I wanted to do with my life. While browsing through the help wanted section of […]