In case anyone missed it, I work from home - I work on this blog, on the Insourced site and job search application in general, and on various other projects and investments. For the most part, I revel in this fact and, to be quite honest, I have it better than a lot of folks […]

The concept of “staging” a home to sell it, first developed as a sales technique on the West coast and having more recently made its way east, is becoming a popular way to sell houses in a real estate buyers market that often requires a little bit more effort on the part of home sellers […]

I read today on Secrets of the Job Hunt, referencing a Bureau of Labor Statistics study, that the average college graduate can expect to hold between 10 and 14 jobs by the time they turn 38. C.M. Russell, author of the blog, suggests that job hopping and free agency are the way to get ahead […]

I went to my feed reader today to get the daily dose of employment fodder and found that some folks were talking about Generation Y, those “crazy kids” who are just a little bit younger than I am. OK, so I’m 33 and firmly entrenched in the flannel-shirt-wearing, Nirvana-listening Gen X crowd. Side note: I […]

There are those who are naturally drawn to a career in sales. They have that certain “something” that helps them block out rejection and focus on the positive, to keep plowing ahead, come what may. I’m not certain that such people are “born” to a sales jobs, but there are definitely personality types that are […]

Titans of business tend to have similar personalities. They’re the men and women often described as “Type A” or “alpha.” They’re aggressive, indefatigable, confident (bordering on cocky) and they get things done. As it turns out, they often turn to the same sources for reading material as well. Ask a dozen business leaders and entrepreneurs […]

We’ve talked about it many times, trying to weigh the value of your time versus how much money you’re making. Are you wealthier making 40K per year working 30 hours per week or making 80K working 60 hours per week? It’s an ongoing struggle for most of us, desperately trying to find a balance that […]

If you managed to make it through the recent housing boom without over-extending yourself, you might be in an excellent position to take advantage of a rapidly declining real estate market. Property values are falling quickly and rates on mortgages are still near historical lows. This means that there are properties to be purchased at […]

I’ve been speaking with a gentleman who lives nearby in Maryland about the possibility of coaching him as he starts his own business. He first approached me with the thought that he would subscribe to an already-designed “work from home” program and work within that context. His reasoning was that such a “program” would give […]

There’s an interesting article in Yahoo! Finance that discusses how Reaching the $5 Million Club Takes an Open Mind. The $5 Million plateau is significant because that is the generally accepted cut-off point for the wealthiest 1% of the nation. Once you have amassed $5 Million, you are truly among the fiscal elite. The article […]