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13 year old Trevor finds out that working for a living is hard and dirty. To get ahead in life, you have to work HARD!13 year old Trevor finds out that working for a living is hard and dirty. To get ahead... more
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I Am Andre Milteer and I Am Free Enterprise. Free Enterprise means having the Power and the Freedom to Compete and the Opportunity to Shape Our Own Future.
The U.S. of America is the Greatest Country in the World for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs to Achieve Success. This Video promotes Free Enterprise...the Power of the American Dream!I Am Andre Milteer and I Am Free Enterprise. Free Enterprise means having the Power... more
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Much Needed Tax Relief For 2009, But You Must Open A Solo 401k By Dec 31st. Nabers http://www.Nabers.com says setting up and contributing to your Solo 401k before the end of 2009 will allow married couples to deduct up to $109,000 from their 2009 income taxes. Watch this video to learn more or you can pick up the phone right now and call Nabers Group directly at 877-903-2220.Much Needed Tax Relief For 2009, But You Must Open A Solo 401k By Dec 31st. Nabers... more
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Small business owners interested in setting up a Solo 401k have less than 60 days to set up a SOLO 401k if they plan on benefiting from the much needed tax relief allotted to them under the plan. Watch the video to learn more about the benefits of setting up a SOLO 401k and visit the Nabers' blog at http://JeffNabers.com.Small business owners interested in setting up a Solo 401k have less than 60 days to... more
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Charles Fleming writes, "Most of the people I know don't have regular jobs. They're writers, actors, musicians, artists, photographers and filmmakers. They also are middle-class taxpayers who carry mortgages and send their kids to public school.
They're used to hard times. They've always lived project to project, rather than paycheck to paycheck. They've learned how to cut costs, eliminate excess and wait out the dry spells. "I'm good at this," one actor friend said. "Between movies, I've been in a recession my whole life!"
But this is different. This is bad. Although no one I know is in foreclosure, my friends and neighbors are experiencing persistent economic erosion.
Census figures say that nearly 70,000 self-employed people work in the arts in Los Angeles. Their job losses won't show up in unemployment numbers because they don't have regular jobs to lose, but they're hurting.
Some folks are still working but doing lesser jobs at lower rates. An actor who had a network TV series two years ago is writing "webisodes" for an online comedy show. An editor who was doing indie feature films last year is struggling to get hired for direct-to-video horror movies. Magazine writers aren't getting freelance assignments because that work is being done by staff editors. Book writers, like me, are experiencing an industrywide slowdown. My agent submitted a book proposal to 22 editors last November. Ten of them have been laid off since then -- and the proposal hasn't been sold.
Some friends are selling out -- or trying to. An actor friend took advantage of his union's offer of help in getting a census-taking job; so did, on the day the test was offered, hundreds of his SAG peers. A musician friend who couldn't make ends meet finally decided to look for a job with a catering company; he stood in line for several hours, one of 300 people vying for the same half a dozen positions, shamed, he said, by the "hushed, defeated looks on the other applicants' faces."
Still others have taken less dramatic steps. Some have fired gardeners, pool men or maids. They've saved money and gained new respect for the backbreaking work required to maintain their gardens and homes.
It's been more than a decade since I had a staff job and a salary. My wife has worked steadily. We've learned how to budget for the long haul, how to enjoy the fat years and eke out the lean. But we have one daughter just starting college and another just finishing high school. We're staring at a rising bottom line and wondering how long we can stay above it. For now, we're hanging on, grateful for all we've got, but mindful of all we have to lose."Charles Fleming writes, "Most of the people I know don't have regular jobs.... more
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Just for fun Steve Pavlina recently asked his wife Erin, "Now that the kids are in summer school, don't you think it's about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long."
She smiled and said, "Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That's weird? I like it!"
Neither of them have had jobs since the ?90s (his only job was in 1992), so the've been self-employed for quite a while. In their household it's a running joke for one of them to say to the other, "Maybe you should get a job, derelict!"
It's like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, "No, please, not that! Anything but that!"
It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea. In fact, if you're reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job.Just for fun Steve Pavlina recently asked his wife Erin, "Now that the kids are... more
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How cool would it be to turn your bachelor pad/frat-style house into a successful internet start-up? Meetro, which started out of a messy home, has outgrown its humble beginnings. Check it out in this pod.How cool would it be to turn your bachelor pad/frat-style house into a successful... more
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