Beyond the Rhetoric

Every week, I do a little something here on Beyond the Rhetoric called What’s Up Wednesdays. It’s a speedlink where I share blog posts that I found around the web and the topics tend to be quite varied. This is my little way of giving back to the Internet at large and the hope is [...]

Do what you love and the money will follow. It’s a mantra that you hear all the time. People say that one of the greatest goals in life is to take what you love to do and figure out how to make money from it. While I’m talking from the context of an entrepreneurial venture, [...]

When it comes to most of my immediate peers, I’m the anomaly. The vast majority of my friends have more conventional jobs where they commute to an office and work among their co-workers. By contrast, I own and run my freelance writing business out of home and most of my days are spent alone. A [...]

As Freelance Camp was wrapping up last weekend, I was pulled aside by a couple of attendees who recognized my name. We got to talking about the world of freelancing, how I got in touch with John Chow, how long I’ve been freelance writing full-time, and how I came to the decision to pursue my [...]

Whether you run your own business or you have a telecommuting arrangement with your employer, you may have considered setting up a home office. Maybe you already have one. Whatever the case, there is one very big decision that you’ll need to make: where is the office going to be? While there are certainly all [...]