In the Success Secrets newsletter, it was reported that 83% of Harvard School graduates had no goals 10 years after graduation; 14% had goals, but not in writing. Those (3%) who had written goals were earning 10 times as much as the group with no goals. Even the 14% whose goals were not in writing [...]
On Fresh Air this week, journalist Margaret Talbot talked with Terry Gross about the performance enhancing drugs that are finding their way into our schools, newsrooms, and workplaces. (Talbot’s article “Brain Gain” appears in the April 27th issue of The New Yorker) in Some students, professors, and even writers on a deadline are taking provigil and ritalin, [...]
Selling or Resale (1 cubicle)
People who are crafty or can seek a good buy (eg antiques, fashion, art) for resale can make or sell a product directly. The product is limited only by your imagination and available sales/storage space. You can even set up a Web site and sell information products with little to no [...]
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One down, one to go…remind me again, why am I self-employed?!
-Cheryl
Direct Selling (2 cubicles)
For many, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Discovery Toys, Amway, and Avon are the go-to images associated with working from home. That can be good-these are well-known companies and products. It can also be bad-who hasn’t heard a story of a friend with a basement full of water softeners or household cleaners they [...]
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If your frantic Friday turned into soccer-saturated Saturday, giving way to not-so-Sabbatical Sunday, then you may now be faced with a Monday morning work-from-home dilemma: to work, or not to work?
I, for one, have been go, go, go since Friday (no wait, maybe Thursday—or maybe Wednesday), and, to me, a day off is looking [...]
Earlier this year The New York Times reached into the “gee whiz” files to pull out a shocking statistic: men don’t do housework, whether they’re gainfully employed or newly laid off. Thus, gender roles may or may not be shifting as women may be becoming the majority of America’s paid workforce.
As a woman working from [...]
Freelancing (3 cubicles)
If you work in a job or have a service skill that can be sold by the hour or by the project, freelancing may be a viable work-from home option. Originally coined to describe a mercenary soldier of the Middle Ages, the term refers to those of us who have shed our affiliation with [...]
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