I was having dinner with an old coworker recently when she told me she was looking at Chinese-language elementary schools for her two-year-old daughter to give her a leg up in the work world when she graduates from college. She told me that a friend’s daughter had graduated from college with a degree in English […]
My Self-Employed Life
I listened to a panel discussion about community recently. One of the speakers said that independence had been so ingrained in her that she couldn’t bring herself to borrow a lawnmower from her neighbor even though he had one, she needed one, and he’d previously offered it to her. This really struck me. I’ve been
Since I’ve started consulting, I’ve found that I’ve become more organized than ever. I’m not a naturally organized person – I have an unusually good memory that I relied on until my late twenties – but I developed a love of simplicity and systems at a pretty young age. This probably (okay, mostly) stems from
When I started writing about my self-employed life, I realized that I didn’t have a “traditional” path to self-employment – or to becoming an artist. I didn’t start a tech company; I didn’t come up with a revolutionary idea or invent an innovative product or develop a trendy style. I don’t have an MBA or