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- Want to start a business? It may be the right time
- Housing slump frays economy of ‘carpet capital’
- Pink Slip 2.0: In a tough Silicon Valley economy 3 laid-off …
- How 4 families try to recover from foreclosure
- Bad times bring work to cobbler
- ‘Chicken Soup’ book has Conn. connection
Stay focused at home business.
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examiners_body img{padding:5px;}As Rhode Island faces it’s worst unemployment rate in decades more and more home businesses are popping up. Each one of them dreams of supporting the family. I have been asked by several people "How do you work from home?" and "I wish I could what is involved with working from home?" Well as any successful entrepreneur can tell you it is not an easy task. Most people do not realize that there are so many distractions by working from home. Yes the laundry needs to get done grocery shopping needs to be completed and the house itself needs to be up kept. but if you do those things during your "ffice" time you will not have any time for completing what your clients need. Your clients are paying you for your time and expect the utmost professionalism when they call.
Want to start a business? It may be the right time
Chicago Tribune
Forget the idea that you’re giving up security because there is no such thing. Start small without risking a lot of money to test the market and build a customer base. He offers as examples working as a Web site designer from home at night or running a landscaping business on the weekends. Find out what your customers want. Seek advice of experienced entrepreneurs. If possible finance your business yourself because small-business loans are hard to come by these days. Take advantage of the flooded market to get supplies or labor more cheaply.
Housing slump frays economy of ‘carpet capital’
The Associated Press
Throughout the region there is a rising sense of fear as the recession shows no signs of letting up. “There isn’t any work” said Charles Steele as he slumped in a chair waiting to speak to a job counselor at the state Labor Department’s Dalton Career Center. The 50-year-old had worked installing home security systems. When he was laid off late last year he wasn’t worried. He figured he could easily find work in shipping and receiving his fallback. Months later he’s still looking.
Pink Slip 2.0: In a tough Silicon Valley economy 3 laid-off …
San Jose Mercury News
“I’ve started using Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter” a micro-blogging tool increasingly popular with job hunters. She’s also trying to network and socialize face-to-face including with friends still working at Citrix. “We got together for lunch one day but afterward it was hard to see them all going back to work as I was going home alone. “Still there are those moments when she looks at her kids. And even though that nagging sense of disappointment is hard to overcome “Sometimes looking at them I feel hope. “The bookkeeperIt can feel like a near-death experience being told your job is over. For 44-year-old Elise Sandusky laid off Feb.
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How 4 families try to recover from foreclosure
The Associated Press
Their $1300 monthly mortgage bill went unpaid. In November 2008 a little more than a year after they got sick a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the Housers’ front door and told them it was time to leave. “We never thought we’d be homeless” Houser says as her granddaughter Marleigh toddles around the kitchen at the family’s small rental home a few miles from where they used to live. They camped out at a Holiday Inn Express for two weeks refusing to split their kids up among relatives and friends’ homes. The couple borrowed money from friends to get by and found this house two weeks later. Houser says they were determined to stay in the same town so that Chris 16 and Mary 14 would not be uprooted from high school. “That was a prerequisite for the kids and Eric and I” she says.
Bad times bring work to cobbler
Baltimore Sun
He sacrificed too much to rebuild his shop after it was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. Maybe when this recession is over and the good times return to Wall Street he could go home. Menia dreams of designing shoes and carrying on her father’s tradition. She’s in college studying psychology but she’s thinking about taking a break. She has pleaded with her parents: What’s the point in getting a degree right now when there are no jobs? Her father refuses to listen. His mind is firm: Menia will live at home in.
‘Chicken Soup’ book has Conn. connection
Hartford Courant
The company moved from. For Newmark who years ago left her hedge fund job to work fromhome and “raise my kids and do the room mother thing” the factthat the series had yet to develop a collection for home-based momswas a glaring omission and a first on her “to-do” list as newpublisher. With her youngest child off to college Newmark made the”Power Moms” book among her first “Chicken Soup” projects. While the term “Power Moms” may connote images of moms totingbriefcases and heading off to the train station in suits Newmarksays it is a reference to “the kind of do-it-all lives women whostay at home lead. “Mothers who have reorganized their lives to be with theirchildren need a little validation” she said. “It’s validationthey usually don’t get at the cocktail party when someone asks’What do you do?”‘Newmark asked Walker to edit the book after reading an articlein The Advocate and Greenwich Time last year about Walker writingher first novel “Four Wives” in the back of her minivan.
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