When Should You Keep Your Day Job?

When Should You Keep Your Day Job?

It feels a little weird for me to be writing about keeping your day job on a blog about small business and entrepreneurship. But I do think there are some scenarios where you can build a business that you own without putting all your chips in the middle so to speak.   I care about business owners structuring their business in a way that works for them and the question of when should you keep your day job is important. Everyone has heard or seen the romanticized version of the entrepreneur, the rugged individualist who overcomes all of the odds to build a successful business and becomes a millionaire. He/she

Book Review: Ignore Everbody and 39 Other Keys To Creativity

Book Review: Ignore Everbody and 39 Other Keys To Creativity

I ran across Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys To Creativity by Hugh MacLeod as I was perusing Amazon’s best of the year for 2009.  The book had a different feel to it than other books I have read recently so I picked it up.  This book did not disappoint. Most of the ideas are not necessarily groundbreaking which I think the author readily admits.  (Hugh’s final chapter is titled “None of This Is Rocket Science”.) What struck me while I was reading this book was just how straightforward and honest the book was as well as how much it reeked of common sense.  I use the words “common sense”