You want to work for yourself but you're not sure what kind of business to start. Assuming you've already 1) taken stock of the larger question (one that traditional career counselors rarely ask) which is, "What do you want your life to look like?" and 2) identified your personal gifts and interests, the next question of course is how do you put it all together in the form of a business?
A great place to look for ideas is trends. In fact it was trend expert Faith Popcorn's 1992 book "The Popcorn Report" heralding the coming phenomenon of people "cashing out" of the corporate world to work at what they want, where they want, and how they want, that inspired me to launch the original pre-internet Changing Course Newsletter.
Read Valerie's entire article Living Large: How Some Enterprising Souls Are Turning a Trend
Valerie Young, our official Career Change Expert
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