It’s easy to sit back and bemoan the economy and other external factors that may be causing your business to slow down. Pick your excuse here:
People don’t want to spend the gas to get to my business; they have on their “gas faces” (See Talk Stock Trading’s Tisa Silver)
People are on a “recession […]
In 2006, the Stillwater, Minnesota school district was forced to pay over $1 million to former employees who had been discriminated against in early retirement. Apparently, the school district was reducing early retirement incentive payments for each year as employees grew older. Huh? (I had to read that a couple of times […]
Mary Emma Allen, over at Home Biz Notes, recently answered a reader’s question about starting a home typing business. I’m assuming the question was about word process on computers, not typewriters. Reminds me of the old Selectric typewriters with the balls you could replace for different fonts…. Back in the 80s, when […]
Some older workers never retire. In fact, according to the Toronto Financial Post, 17% of boomers continue to work indefinitely, not just for the money but for personal satisfaction.
The trade-off is that you aren’t taking Social Security, which means that you can take more out later (if you live long enough). Postponing your retirement (not […]
This is my last rant for 2007: You get what you put up with. Two examples:
EXAMPLE 1. I went to a movie theater with my son and daughter over the holidays. This was the first movie I had seen in a long time at the theater (my husband and I usually […]
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Written by Jean Murray [email] for b5media.
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