Corporate Layoffs - No, Not Everyone Can Become an Entrepreneur Empire-Builder, But All Could Become Entrepreneurial
"Corporate
America is bracing for a potential economic downturn by shrinking the employee
base as part of its streamlining measures. Job cuts announced by U.S.-based
employers jumped 13% to 33,843 in October ..." Reuters Legal, November 23, 2022.
It's come to this: It's now
downright necessary to hedge your financial situation in terms of income from
your full-time corporate job with side gigs. That has nothing to do with
becoming an entrepreneur envisioning being the next Amazon. But it has everything
to do with being entrepreneurial. That is, spotting earning opportunities,
going after them, and moving on to more lucrative ones.
It seems downright reckless to bet
the ranch on any one job. A growing number of my clients who have
"good" jobs have moved on from that to multiple sources of income
from work. Those can be as simple as delivering meals (tips often make that a high-revenue
venture) to the bit more complex such as being known in the community as a
vendor for used smartphones.
It had been freelancing after-50
guide Paul Chaney who introduced the issue on
LinkedIn about a difference, if it exists, between entrepreneurship and
contract work. What seems to be evolving is a blurring of those
boundaries. I label it The Scramble.
We all have to see the world of
business with the perspective of a Jeff Bezos. But we don't have to set out to
create his kind of empire. However, that could happen.
On your day job, management
increasingly is demanding creating strategy and behaving in, yes,
entrepreneurial ways. Sometimes that goes by the term "thinking
young." What processes, for example, have become irrelevant?
Entrepreneurial mindsets reduce the
catastrophe of a layoff and when applied at the full-time job can prevent being
cut from the team.
The meme of the second decade of the
21st century is scrambling.
Burnt-Out?
In transition in your career? Need more income? Healing from a professional
setback? I can help you through Intuitive career coaching.
“On
the menu” of services are Tarot readings, both spreads and one-card pulls. In
April 2021, The New York Times featured the Tarot as a useful tool for
self-awareness and introspection.
Let’s
talk a bit about where you are – no charge. Then, if you want to work together
the fees are custom-made for your budget.
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contact janegenova374@gmail.com or text 203-468-8579.
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