You want to make a great living out of work that’s fun for you, but it seems a long way off. How do you get there? A lot of people would get you to set goals. Sigh. There’s a problem with this incessant goal-setting that so many gurus recommend. It places a focus on the future and [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Threadless – the incredibly successful accidental business
Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell, developed “a fun side-project” into the hugely successful, crowd-sourced t-shirt design website Threadless. They didn’t plan it, they didn’t really know what they were doing, they just played it out. A superb model for us all. Watch them explain how they did it and what their “Get Shit Done” ethic means [...]
3 steps to make your dreams come true right away
Whatever you dream of doing with your life, you can start it right this moment. You can of course sit down, decide exactly what you want, set goals, and develop a plan to get you there – but the fact is an awful lot of people fall at this first hurdle. What if you don’t [...]
How to get paid to watch YouTube
Lindsey Mountford is one of the case studies in Screw Work Let’s Play. After graduating, she fell into some pretty miserable sales jobs and ended up frittering away time at work playing around on Facebook and YouTube – so she went out and found a way to get paid to do exactly that. “I came [...]
