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 […]

Ten years ago, as a young man just one year out of college, armed with a degree in Economics, a stint as a college writing center tutor and a lifelong friend with a degree in English and a polished writing style, I started my first business. Mick and I called it a “business”, but really […]

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 […]

I was fairly new to the recruiting blogosphere when I discovered Recruiting.com for the first time a few years back, and once when I re-visited the site after not checking in for a bit was shocked to see an entirely new format. That change, of course, came after Recruiting.com was purchased by Jobster and signaled […]

Note: I originally wrote this for Work.com, so pardon the “action/advice/recommendation” format if you’re reading this. When I realized that each “box” on Work.com requires that one enter no more than 1,000 characters, presumably to meet the needs of the “short attention span, no reading comprehension skills, busy as hell” type of folks out there, […]

I have seen a couple things recently that got me thinking about the concept of failure from the perspective of one’s career and/or professional aspirations. Having been involved in entrepreneurial pursuits since the infancy of my working life, “success” and “failure” have always been extremely fluid concepts, changing with almost every new realization, idea, […]

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 […]

While there is much debate about exactly what defines the current Web 2.0 phenomenon, one thing is clear: New Internet start-ups are launching at a rapid pace. As a result, comparisons to the original dot-com era are inevitable and at least worthy of discussion. By looking at the current growth in Internet […]