Creating Your Own Job

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Finding a job is a lot harder than actually doing the job. That's probably the most important thing I've learned. Now that the economy isn't where it used to be, looking for work can be very hard and stressful. So why not create your own job? Check out Paul Maidment's article from Forbes Magazine on creating your job, a story that will give you a nudge in the direction of becoming an entrepreneur.

"I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it."

So said Norman Tebbit, former U.K. anti-labor union employment minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s, in the wake of Britain's urban riots in 1981, which were widely attributed to the worsening unemployment caused by de-industrialization.

Though the remark was made to a party supporter and not to someone who had lost their job, as popularly supposed, the hard-line employment secretary thereafter became Norman "On yer bike!" Tebbit, and "Get on your bike and look for work" became the Thatcher-era admonition to the unemployed.

Read more at Forbes Magazine