These days, more and more people are giving up traditional career paths in favor of more flexible self-employment options. Even those that don’t go that far often turn to side jobs as a way of earning more money while not engaged with their primary job. This is an especially common practice throughout the UK, where […]
How Self-Employed Businesses Can Take On IRS Audits
Running a small business subjects an owner to various twists and turns on a daily basis. Few events, however, will raise an entrepreneur’s blood pressure quicker than a U.S. Department of Treasury letter informing them the business has been selected for an IRS audit. John Gregory EA, tax practitioner and founder of 1040Return.com, […]
No Payroll Taxes for Workers Under 30
Occupy Wall Street is struggling to come up with a plan to remedy the fact that 1% of the world’s population owns 40% of its wealth. The demonstrators in Zuccotti Park have an intuition that the other 99% deserve a better deal – like a one-night stay in a five-star hotel or a one-carat diamond […]
6 Unusual High-Paying Careers
American job titles and responsibilities are constantly morphing to suit the economic and cultural transitions of our madcap age. Euphemisms are often the way recruiters dress up old job titles to narrow the field to specialists. A "hash slinger" is now termed a "culinary resource professional." Kidding aside, today’s workers are often forced by marketplace […]
It Takes Creativity to Be Self-Employed
This is part 6 of a series in making the leap to self-employment You may not think you are creative, but once you strike out on your own, you will begin flexing those dormant creative muscles, which have become stunted from working for someone else. “Ideas are floating around in the air and they simply […]
It Takes “Attitude” to be Self-Employed
Part 4 of a series on how to make the leap to self-employment The single most important characteristic that will guide your success as a worker who writes your own paycheck is your attitude. Because quitting your job and becoming successfully self-employed requires a major shift in thinking. As you develop an entrepreneurial attitude, you’ll […]
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