Careers with Purpose
When I started my consulting business 4 years ago, I had no clue what I was doing. But I had met consultants. Actually, I had hired consultants. I saw how much we were paying them and I thought they were doing interesting work. So I
Teachers don’t make enough money. There, I said it. The amount the teachers get paid in the United States is almost criminal. A few years ago, I was interviewing people who were unhappy at work for a book project, and I was surprised by how
In honor of this amazing prompt that launched this post, I’m demonstrating how to make money from your phone. I’m writing this – you guessed it – on my phone. How meta is that?! My process is pretty simple. I create a Google doc with
I hate jobs. This is a career site, so I tell people how to get them. And of course, I’ve had my share of jobs. But these days, I don’t have a job. I don’t work for a boss. And it’s not because I’m lazy.
Updated Dec 14, 2022 Passive income is a darn cool thing if you can get it. Defined as the ability to “earn money while sleeping,” who wouldn’t want it? Unfortunately, I saw my time in school as a money funnel that took all my savings
Updated February 3, 2023 What if I told you it’s not that hard to start a business with no money? Would you think I was scamming you? I remember some of the old-timers in my hometown saying, “it takes money to make money.” Maybe that’s
Updated January 31, 2023 I’ve always been a hobby person. Maybe you are too. I’ve always had something stewing, been learning a new thing. To be honest, it makes me really happy. Hobbies often end up sucking a lot of our money, whether we’re dropping
Have you ever dreamed of being a freelance writer? Do you imagine sitting in a Parisian cafe, or heck, even at home in your pajamas and getting paid to write? Freelance writing is still big business, and so far the robots haven’t been able to
I first met Lindy Ledohowski, PhD for lunch at an Ottawa Bier Markt in Fall of 2019. I’d recently started blogging about leaving academia, and we connected on LinkedIn. I was still working for the government in a glass tower somewhere downtown, puzzling over the
Updated November 2, 2022 If there’s anything we took away from the 2020s, it’s the fact that working from home is the future. Not to mention EVERYTHING is online, including entrepreneurship. Online business is booming. So if you’ve always dreamed of making the leap into
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