Achieving the balance in business
Today we welcome back Malcolm Owens to Small Business Owner…
Working in small business can lead to feeling apart from the wider world. Time and achievement demands weigh heavily. Always frantic, balancing current workloads with the flow of new business, time at work and home. Never relaxing, always busy, trying to get ahead. A [...]
Go the guts
Do you feel and follow your instincts?
It’s cold, dark and raining. You’re tired, hungry and far from home.
A car pulls up: bright, inviting. The clean-cut driver smiles.
He offers a lift – just into town. Nora Jones croons.
It looks safe, but something in you goes click.
‘No, thank you.’
Long road
Having endured the GFC, we may be tempted [...]
Super – can a fragile misfit expedite the process?
I feel cagey.
Superannuation has been an odd venture for me.
I’ve charted several courses, without satisfaction.
Now I’m taking a violently different tack.
Will time and tide vanquish or vindicate?
Rolled gold
My first corporate employer had a ‘defined benefit’ fund.
From the instant I joined, I was worth $160K dead or retired. This grew around $10K a year [...]
Sole Trader Christmas Party
I work alone from my home office. Running your own business is great, but it can make you a bit paranoid.
Last year was tough and, as my only employee, I really carried the can.
When December came, I felt a party was needed to reward effort and boost morale.
Before
I asked for volunteers to form a committee. [...]
Then and Now
Today we welcome Judy Oldmeadow to Small Business Owner. Like many small business owners, Judy’s experienced the underbelly of self-employment: back-breaking hours, loneliness and isolation. She’s come out the other side as an inspiring example of persistence; today she shares her very poignant journey with us.
Dark days
Last day of school holidays. It’s nearly dark as I [...]
Scrapheap Challenge
I’m forming a theory:
Trips down Self-Employment Street may impair your return to the Full-Time Freeway.
I’m still gathering evidence, but I recently copped a significant anecdotal datum.
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Though happily occupied at Empire House, I’ve long kept a watching brief on copywriting jobs via Seek.
Just as the global financial crisis neared its climax, I received the first job [...]
