The assumption of employment is all around us. I'm not knocking employment. Quite the contrary: Image via Wikipedia Rule of Work: Your work is not the venue. Whether your work is best conducted as an employee, contractor, entrepreneur, or volunteer, pursue the venue where you can derive from your work all the meaning you are intended to have. But it's sort of like … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Rapes the Free World. Again.
Usually, I won't make political comments, but in this case, they've walked into territory we've claimed as our own, so here goes: Image via Wikipedia The latest move by the Supreme Court to lift all corporate limits on campaign contributions is clearly aimed at preventing a repeat of the Obama election, who didn't put them in office. Sure, he'll be re-elected. But then … [Read more...]
No Mortgage for Freelancers?
Your local NPR or public radio station "The Take Away" is running talk about how freelancers are treated unreasonably (I'd say prejudicially) for mortgage loan applications vs. job holders. Got an offer letter or a couple of pay stubs from a job? You're on the fast track for refinance or a new mortgage. Freelancer? They want two years of tax return documentation indicating a … [Read more...]
Action Items: The Joys of Slicing Cheese
A colleague and I are constructing a new type of organization, and at times at the outset I felt overwhelmed and a bit paralyzed. It comes with having an enormous vault of ideas, and a need for speed, while needing also to quickly put up an infrastructure (in this case a marketing infrastructure) that is woven piece into piece. This weekend, I revisited my part of the plan, and … [Read more...]
The 2-minute Resignation Letter
Here it is, time to write another resignation letter for a family member. This is sort of my role in our family. The reasons for leaving are employer incompetence, but naturally I reach for the most tiny, most dull, most trivial format there is. Yes, I'd like to say, "you people are tards who are running your own business into the ground by rewarding mediocrity and using some … [Read more...]
