Four Tips For Starting A Business With Low Risk and Big Success
September 26, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers, Entrepreneurship and Business
I was reading this post on Career Ramblings, and it made me think about how our educational system has slowly taken away the importance of entrepreneurship and the ability to create jobs for others. Do you realize that when you launch a new business, you are adding value to your community and to the job market. The narrow-minded idea of going to GET a job riight out of college has diminished the value and importance of thinking like that of an entrepreneur. What about starting a business while you are in college? The main argument for having the mentality of going to work for someone else is that it’s easier to get a job rather than start a business, and it’s more risky to start a business than go and get a job. I don’t think that is always true if you are wise about the way you start a business. Here are four tips for launching a business at the start of your working life.
Moving Back In With the Parents May Be a Smart Financial Decision
September 11, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers
If you haven’t stumbled across the Brazen Careerist blog written by Penelope Trunk, I suggest that you check it out. She gives great career and start-up business advice.
She writes references an article wriitten by Ryan Healy college graduates going back home to live with their parents.
The 11 Principles Series: Find Creative Ways to Boost Your Income
July 4, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers, Entrepreneurship and Business, Extra Income
A List of the Best Careers for 2007
June 14, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers
U.S. News and World Report has come up with this list of the 25 best careers of 2007. There are the obvious ones like a doctor, dentist, engineer, and professor. But, there are also some surprising ones like medical scientist, librarian, urban/regional planner, and a fundraiser. The four criteria they graded the jobs on are Job Market Outlook, Attainability, Prestige, and Quality of Life.
Making The Transition From One Career To Another
May 24, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers
Let me guess, you are completely bored at work, you watch for the clock to strike 5 o’clock, and you can’t stand the people that you work with. If you are nodding your head right now, then you might need a change of scenery. Chances are that it’s not the work place, it’s the career. If you enjoyed the work you were doing, you might be able to get over the fact that you can’t stand the people around you or the occasional downtime when business is slow. You may have thought about switching careers in the past, but you were paralyzed with fear. Here are some excuses that might be holding you back from making the jump to a different career.
Income Does Not Produce Career Fulfillment
April 6, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers
One of the biggest decisions we make in life is the work we engage in on an every day basis. You may be in a job that you hate right now, or you may be loving what you do right now. The fact is that our career may change over our lifetime, but our passions and desires never change. The hard part is finding work that lines up with our passions and desires. College students and recent graduates make the huge mistake of starting a career based on the income. Our parents, friends, and the media tell us to go for the money, even if the work is boring or lacks meaning in our life. In the Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:10 says:
” Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.”
Once we get in the habit of loving money over everything else in our life, we start to realize the other areas of our life that begin to fail. Constantly pursuing money without pursuing your passions leads to a downward spiral of more shallow relationships, less physical health, and less mental stability. In reality, a large salary plays much less of a role in how we feel about our job than we may think.
Get Better Results Writing Your Own Resume
April 5, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers
A vital part of personal finance is career development. In order to become wealthy, we have to be in a career that allows us to use our talents to the best of our abilities. We will make more money and succeed far beyond our wildest dreams if we’re engaging in work that we enjoy and are passionate about. Having said that, you need to grab that dream career before you can start going forward.
The Difference Between a Career And a Job
February 19, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers, Random
I was talking to my wife the other night about decisions that I wish I would have never made in the past. One of them was jumping on a job right out of college just because it paid a decent paycheck. I told her that if I was smart, I would have worked a menial job and wait for the right opportunity in a field of work that I enjoy. Instead, I took a job that I am not passionate about and the pay isn’t that great.
Preparing For My Performance Evaluation
January 21, 2007 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers, Random
I don’t want to say that I am preparing for the worst, but I think it’s important to be prepared for anything that might come up in one’s end-of-the-year performance evaluation. My evaluation is on tuesday, and I am a little nervous about it. The biggest raise that I can get really isn’t that much, but it’s better than nothing. If I am graded as “performing on average” than my raise will only be about 3% which is basically keeping up with inflation. What I am going to do is think of at least three different strengths or things that I have improved on this past year. Then, when we start talking about negative aspects of my evaluation, I’ll have some back-up ammunition to fire back in my support.
Making Money from Blogging (Part 2 of 2)
December 5, 2006 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Careers, Entrepreneurship and Business
So, you want to get in on the blogging phenomenon, but you don’t know what to do. Maybe you have tried managing a blog in the past and it was a failure. Well, I am not an expert in this field, but I have been doing it long enough to know what works and what will work. I have not made any real money from blogging, but I do know what other people have done to be successful at making money from blogging.ÂÂ
