There are so many ways to slash your career, but one way to think about how to pursue multiple careers is how to expand it. Do you go wide, deep, or wild? What do I mean? Going wide means sticking to one discipline and applying different but related skills for different industries or markets....
Mass marketing is dead. Or so that’s what everybody says. Although I wouldn’t call mass markets non-existent (there’s a good reason the big television networks and telcos are still raking it in), there is no doubt there’s been a proliferation of niche markets as never before. For sure, prosperity and technology have given rise...
Not a lot of people know that I was a C.P.A. The road from being a junior auditor at SGV to editor-in-chief at MoneySense and co-founder and chief executive of Learning Curve was a long and winding one, with crossroads at certain turns. I’m a classic case of someone who took up a college course...
There’s no such thing as a safe job anymore, is there? Well, perhaps there is, if you know how to recession-proof your career or nab one of the hottest jobs. There’s another way to stay the course even in rough job markets – build a portfolio career. It sounds fancy but it’s been going...
Being lost in my career, making financial mistakes, and committing foolish choices – sounds familiar? I would have appreciated it back then if someone older gave me honest and sound advice about money and career. So, if I were to write a letter to my 20-something self, this is what I’ll say: Find yourself...
If you ask me what I do for a living, I’ll be quick to say that I’m a conference producer, because that’s how I primarily make money. I am, first and foremost, an entrepreneur, a business owner, who happens to have a couple of projects on the side I do for other companies. But if...
