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Savings Help for Self-Employed

Work for yourself? Don't mourn that 401k! Tax laws allow the self-employed to save a lot more in special retirement savings plans than regular individual retirement accounts. So seize the tax breaks made just for you... It can be tough adjusting to life as an "accidental consultant." On top of...

Tags: 401(k) Plan, Tax, Income, Plan, Roth IRA, MoneyWatch, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Operational Accounting, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, SEP IRA, Retirement Planning, Retirement Income, Self-Employed, Accidental Consultant, Keoghs, Paulette Miniter

Articles 2009-03-09

Three Consultant Success Stories

Becoming an "accidental" consultant can be the best thing that ever happened to your career. Just ask the three professionals profiled here. ...

Tags: Food, Welch's, Consultant, Health Care, Consulting, MoneyWatch, Outsourcing, Food & Beverage, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Manufacturing, Kim Lopez-Walters, Grant Son, David Mark, Accidental Consultant, Jeff Yang

Articles 2009-05-21

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The Accidental Consultant

The Armageddon economy has created a new shadow workforce of, ahem, consultants. If you're one, here's how to make the best of it — and maybe find your next job.The ranks of the white-collar unemployed have risen by more than a third since 2007. The market for full-time employment is...

Tags: Consultant, MoneyWatch, Armageddon Economy, Outsourcing, Professional Development, Payroll Solutions, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Career, Consulting, Layoffs, Self Employment, Home Office, Government Work, Contract Management, Financial Compliance, Health Care Reform, Project Management, Social Media, Web Consulting, Data Security, MoneyWatch Feature Package

Articles 2009-05-26

The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir. - book reviews

By Candace Gingrich with Cris Bull with Chris Bull Scribner, $23 A good way to summarize society's stunning, if almost imperceptibly slow, transformation on the question of homosexuality is this: In the 1990s, one can be famous, not infamous, for being gay. If you think I exaggerate the...

Tags: activism, activist, Gingrich, Government, Leadership, memoir, Newt, TVs, U.S. Congress

Research articles 1996-11-01

The Upside of Apocalypse

Scammed in 2008? Laid off? Your portfolio in tatters? Well, look on the bright side. At least you'll get some tax breaks. Here are three that could make the final reckoning a little less painful. Who could fault you for thinking that 2008 marked the end of the financial...

Tags: Financial, MoneyWatch, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Kathy Kristof, Tax, Deduction, Credit, Phase-Out, Threshold Income, Above-The-Line, First-Time Homebuyer Credit, American Opportunity Tax Credit, Hope Tax Credit, Lifetime Learning Credit, Making Work Pay Credit, Write-Off, Schedule C, Loss, Ponzi Scheme, Madoff, IRS

Articles 2009-03-09

Tao of Programming: Authorized Edition

This is a bit off topic, but it's useful to anybody in sales and marketing who need to understand the way engineers think. This post contains the entire text of the book The Tao of Programming.  It's probably one of the most popular books of computer humor...

Tags: Program, Novice, Programmer, Master, Programming, Manager, Tao, Master Programmer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Geoffrey James

Blog posts 2009-03-28

Where Freelancers Are in Demand

Where "accidental" consultants can find work; and how they get their feet in the door. ...

Tags: Job, Marketing, Consultant, Compliance, Social Media, Consulting, Data Security, MoneyWatch, Government Work, Contract Management, Financial Compliance, Project Management, Richard Sine

Articles 2009-05-26

How Do Brits Use LinkedIn?

Americans are quite simply better at business networking than Britons -- and just about any other nationality, actually. So it should come as no surprise that they're streets ahead of the UK when it comes to using Web 2.0 for business connections. In...

Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Americans, Web 2.0, Networking, Internet, Richard Young

Blog posts 2009-07-28