SAUDICKA DIARAM| Contributor “I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.” Oprah Winfrey It is a place that most persons have been before, some have managed to use the experience to prepare themselves for the peak of their lives. Others have …
KAREN HESLOP| Contributor Last year, I walked away from a well-paying job because it was wreaking havoc on my health and general well-being. It was a huge risk but it was something I knew in my heart that I had to do. Suffice to say, if you’re working in a toxic environment that’s sucking the …
JAMILA BANNISTER| Contributor Transitioning from employee to entrepreneur can be rough. It’s even rougher when this transition happens suddenly like after being laid off, retrenched, or “resorting” to it because of a difficult and dry job market. Moving from working on specific tasks in a conventional job to being responsible for an entire operation could …