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By Bruce Kroeze, on August 26th, 2009
I am a small businessman and employer. I’ve hired various people for jobs as needed, and I work regularly with an excellent designer. But, I’ve been quite reluctant to take the next step and hire full-time employees. It isn’t that the payroll is that hard to do. QuickBooks takes care of that for me. The problem is that anyone I’d hire full-time would (rightly) expect that I’d provide a health insurance option.
I support a strong public healthcare option on extremely pragmatic reasoning, that it would benefit my bottom line, the bottom line of my employees, it would increase flexibility, freedom and responsiveness. Haha, I almost sound like I’m using “Randian” analysis here.
Continue reading A Small Business Wants Public Healthcare
By Bruce Kroeze, on February 20th, 2007
Now that I am working full-time in my new interactive web agency, SolidSiteSolutions, I am even more committed to something I first started doing casually about a year ago. That is, I make a discipline of “planting a seed” every day. . . . → Read More: Planting seeds of success every day
By Bruce Kroeze, on February 3rd, 2007
With three days on my own now under my belt, I think I am in the perfect position to talk about some of the differences. While employment is still fresh in my mind, everything is still new to me. I’m having so much fun learning and growing into my new phase of working life.
. . . → Read More: Life Without an Employer
By Bruce Kroeze, on January 26th, 2007
I’ve resigned my job. The Universe truly is a benevolent place.
This is the first time in my life I’ve quit one job without having another fulltime one lined up to replace it. It is truly a leap of faith for me to go 100% on my own.
The Universe hasn’t let me down . . . → Read More: I've Resigned!
By Bruce Kroeze, on November 21st, 2006
The other day, I was reading Loral Langemeier’s new book “The Millionaire Maker’s Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing” as I was getting off the elevator at work. . . . → Read More: Proud to be interested
By Bruce Kroeze, on September 16th, 2006
In the last couple years, I’ve slowly come to an interesting realization about work, and certain types of people at work. . . . → Read More: On workplace "heroes"
By Bruce Kroeze, on July 12th, 2006
Why am I working at my job? What am I getting out of it? Asking myself these questions and coming to a firm conclusion has made a night and day turnaround in my attitude.
The Turning Point
On Monday this week (being late to work), I was picking up a bunk-bed for my girls. . . . → Read More: Focusing on the goal
By Bruce Kroeze, on April 20th, 2006
Yay! I’ve accepted a new job at Dotster.com. This means I won’t have any period of unemployment at all.
In fact, with severance and PTO payout, this is turning into a windfall month. There goes another chunk of debt for me.
This was the most interesting jobsearch in ages, since I’m a lot more . . . → Read More: Accepted a job at Dotster
By Bruce Kroeze, on April 14th, 2006
A quick and happy update to my lay-off status. . . . → Read More: Deciding between job offers
By Bruce Kroeze, on March 27th, 2006
Despite my hopeful post a couple weeks ago, I’m pretty sure I’ll have to get another day job. Darn.One thing that’s been bothering me about the jobhunt is how readily and how early people ask about my "rate". . . . → Read More: Getting paid what I'm worth
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