Brian Clark over at Copyblogger had a great post today called 7 Useful Links for Weekend Reading. The idea behind his post is that there’s a lot of link sharing that happens within Twitter instead of blogs.
I often post links to things on Twitter that I’ve found to be great reads. In case you don’t follow Free Pursuits on Twitter, here’s some of what you missed. These weren’t all new last week, but that’s when I found ‘em.
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During economic downturns and recessions many people turn to freelancing or starting a business after being laid off from a regular job. It’s part of a natural cycle. Then, when the economy picks up again, some of those people return to the workforce because they weren’t successful as an entrepreneur or because they prefer the security of employment.
There are longer-term forces at play, however, and people who become self employed during this recession may be more likely to continue to work for themselves after the economic recovery. This is due to a progression towards something academics call the “post-employment” economy that we appear to be in the midst of.
Just what is the post-employment economy anyways? Will we all be freelancers or entrepreneurs one day?
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This post is part of a series about the flexibility of entrepreneurship. Some people may question whether or not being a freelancer is a traditional form of entrepreneurship. We’ve already talked about a much expanded definition of entrepreneurship in another post.
When it comes to freelancing, there are certainly great differences in the levels of entrepreneurship people undertake.
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What kind of flexibility does owning a restaurant or bar afford you? It is certainly an act of entrepreneurship. As such, you have some control over the structure of the business. If you don’t have investors involved, you’ll be your own boss. As with other forms of entrepreneurship, however, you are actually trading a boss for some other entity that judges your work product.
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Ah, the current popular career option for millions of dreamers out there. Let’s assume for this article that I’m talking about legitimate software developers or people selling real items online.
I’m not talking about the “internet marketing” or “social media consultant” home-based businesses that so many hucksters are pushing these days. It seems as though people who jumped from being daytraders in the late ’90s to real estate flippers a few years back are suddenly all internet marketing geniuses. Interesting phenomenon, but it’s a topic for another post.
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