What to Do

You've been downsized and the last few years working for a large corporation were hell anyway. As companies trim personnel, fewer and fewer people are left to do the work. As computers take over the routine jobs, more and more of the work is the stressful job of fixing things that have gone wrong. More things go wrong because "on-the-job-training" is now the norm — "training" consists of having someone inexperienced do something until they get it right. In a way, you're better off out of there and you really don't want to get another job like the one you had.

You consider starting your own business but don't know what to do. You read up on it and all this stuff about doing what you're good at, what you enjoy doing, what you feel passionate about etc. doesn't really get you anywhere. You just want to find something that you can do and make enough money to pay the bills. You look on the Internet. Searching under "work" gets you "Men at Work." "Jobs" gets you thousands of listings for programmers. "Starting a Business" is more useful but you get swamped with franchise ads. Even if you were interested, you don't have the cash to buy a franchise.

Then someone tells you about this new on-line service, Suite101. You look under the Small Business topic and it tells you to go to a site which lists a lot of small businesses you can start with very little capital. You go and look at it and it's exactly what you need. Some of the ideas are a bit funny but there are lots of things you think you could do. You choose one, work hard, keep your customers happy and make piles of money. Well, small piles. Suite101 and Small Business — the best thing since Big Business.

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