As I expected, I’ve been laid-off from my current job. Feh.
About 50 out of 150 of us were let go, including 90% of engineering, my boss and my boss’s boss. The ones who weren’t let go were the most upset, I think. I made a card for the people who remain, saying […]
Tags: Employment
Mark Taw has an article on his site titled "Why Most Businesses Fail (A Theoretical Model)". It seems to be getting quite a bit of discussion from three types of responders. Either he is "spot-on", he is an idiot, or he is being misinterpreted.
I think he is just misinformed and doesn’t really grasp […]
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Big news this week for me. My day-job company just lost more than half its business on one day. Two major clients went with another agency.
Fearless Money is one of the sites in the 13th Festival of Frugality at Simply Thrifty. I’m honored to be in such good company.
I submitted my article about selling books on Amazon. For reference, there are three of them:
First Week Results
Amazon money flood
Amazon pocket money
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I made about $400 in the first week of selling some of my old books on Amazon! That’s after commission and shipping. I’m stunned, actually.
These were decent books, of course. They were mostly computer books, still topical, just not in areas I still pursue. Several were adoption books, useful while we […]
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A couple days ago, I mentioned that I’d started making pocket money by listing old books on Amazon. I’m pleased to report that the response has been amazing. I have shipped five or six books each and every day this week.
That means I’m making between $25 and $100 a day by selling books […]
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By talking with a group of young people about whether they would ever think of starting their own business, author Dave Pollard found several common fears, which he has taken the time to debunk in a thoughtful article.
The one fear that stood out to me the loudest was that they were afraid they “couldn’t handle […]
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