Category: work

6 Steps to Becoming a Successful Freelancer

By Ross Jenkins Freelancing is not easy. In fact, for as many people who’ve found success in the field, there are just as many people who have failed tremendously. There are a lot of benefits to enjoy with freelancing. Not only does it allow you to work at your own pace, but it also exposes…


Thoughts on Work and the Work Ethic

Commentary Most of us who grow up in middle-class America are inculcated with what Karl Marx called “bourgeois” values. One of the fundamental values was that when we reached adulthood, we would go to work. I don’t recall this being explicitly taught. It seemed to be the natural order of things that we unconsciously absorbed…


Our Collective Loss of What’s Normal

While it was certainly an adjustment, overall, I felt like I came out of COVID-19 unscathed. I’m certainly not trying to brag. I was, and still am, fortunate to work from home when I need or want to—and most of our employees are able to do the same. I was really grateful for the quality…


Hire Employees for Your Business and Make Sure They Stay

The past year or so has been a rough period for small businesses. COVID-19 limited interactions with customers—quashed sales, and shrunk the workforce to new lows. Many small businesses did not make it out of the wreckage. Those that survived are now attempting to regain their footing. It’s time to hire employees for your business….


5 Reasons Why Knowing How to Listen Is One of the Most Sought After Skills to Work

By Daniel Colombo The true power of communication is knowing how to listen, not speaking. In fact, I always share the idea that we need to listen 80 percent of the time and speak only 20 percent. It is not only about the economy of words, but that, conceptually, the process of connecting with other people through the use…


Oklahoma Man Walks 17 Miles a Day for Work, Stranger Offers a Ride and Turns His Life Around

An Oklahoma man walking 17 miles to work and back each day to make his family proud has had his life turned around when a kind stranger stopped to offer him a ride. Donte Franklin, 20, lost his mother to hepatitis C when he was just 16 years old and life just got hard for…


Fostering Stellar Work Ethic in an Age of Victimhood

Happily making curlicues on cones and serving Blizzards upside down, the teenage son of a friend of mine is experiencing his first real job this summer behind the counter at Dairy Queen. So far it seems to be going well. He’s already received a raise and has been promised a position as manager once he…


Should You Bring Work on Your Vacation?

Summertime is a popular time for vacation-goers. Sometimes when I’m headed on vacation with friends, it’s easier to get off work at other times during the year. But when you want to head out of town with the kids, summer is the best time because they are out of school for the next few months….


The Art of Working From Home

Article by Stephen Nalley It is estimated that approximately 45 percent of the workforce will be working from home in some capacity by the end of 2021. For someone who has worked remotely for the better part of the past 30 years, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you can increase…


Walmart Will Let Its Senior Packers Go Back to Work, Under Some Conditions

Article by Entrepreneur Staff Walmart México y Centroamérica will allow its senior packers to return to work. However, this will happen when the epidemiological traffic light in Mexico is at the lowest level of risk for COVID-19. The company announced that it restarted its conversations with the National Institute of Older Adults (INAPAM) with the…