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“Is it right for me?” you ask. The simple answer is that it depends on you. Even using a term such as ‘rat race’ implies that being in salaried employment is a bad thing. I don’t necessarily believe that working for somebody else in gainful employment is the wrong way to go. It simply means you don’t get any benefits of leverage.

For example, if you deliver a million-dollar… Continue reading

I’ve spent the last week working hard on Zazzle. If you haven’t heard of Zazzle, feel free to go and investigate, and see if it’s something you might want to do.

The principle behind it is Print on Demand (POD) merchandising. So if you think you have a creative talent, you can make yourself a design and upload it to Zazzle. Then what you need to do… Continue reading

We are in a terrible mess economically at the moment. What started out as a hairline fracture (a credit crunch) rapidly became a hefty old crack (or financial downturn). Then of course the whole thing shattered into recession.

At the heart of the current recession is property investment, and dodgy lending practices, with the invention and almost viral distribution of complex derivatives called collateralised debt obligations (CDOs). The solution… Continue reading

As we grow up we are all taught that we need to get a good education. We are told this will help us to get a decent well-paid job. In other words, we are systematically conditioned to understand that getting an education is ‘good’; and that this will enable us to get a job, which is also ‘good’. The alternative, not getting an education, will supposedly plunge us into poverty… Continue reading