I’m a spreadsheet guy. For almost three years I tinkered with my Excel file that I called “Freedom.xls” to see if I could ever become self-employed. I created the spreadsheet to face my fears and to come up with a plan before I faced them. That way, I could prepare in advance. But as Mike...
When my wife and I married I was working at a bank. It wasn’t related to my degree nor was it well-paying. It was a job that allowed me to work part-time while I went to seminary and then after finishing my first semester in seminary, it allowed me to go full-time when I realized...
I am unemployable. I love working for myself. I have tasted what it is like to work for myself and I am hard-pressed to think of what it would take for me to become an employee again. Again, I love being self-employed. That being said, there are at least 3 things about self-employment that I...
Will Rogers is credited with saying “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” One way I know to short-circuit this is by learning from other people’s bad judgments. I do this by reading. And reading A LOT. Learning hard lessons by reading how others dealt with things has...