All Entries Tagged With: "jobs"
Path to the Exit – Part 5
Once one has decided on a career path, how do you go about finding an actual opportunity? Believe it or not, this is actually the easy part. The difficult part is figuring out what to do, the easy part is finding where to do it. Opportunities exist everywhere in the frum market, you just need [...]
42 Years Old and No Job – What Should He Do?
The following encounter happens so often these days. A friend of mine who is in his 40′s and his children are rapidly approaching shidduchim asked me what I think he should go into. He learned in kollel many years, and now does odd jobs around a yeshiva where he earns a pittance. He tried like [...]
Charting Your Own Course
The economic situation of today is starkly different than 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago. You cannot be making serious money today by just working for someone else. In order to make “good money” in today’s economy, you have to be directly operating a profit center of your own, without anyone else standing [...]
Don’t Even Know Where to Begin
I received a letter from a concerned aunt of a 30 year old Lakewood yungerman. She wrote: How is a young man of 30 to leave kollel when all he can do is work in a very menial job, when he has little English skills, a bit of arithmetic, and no experience in dealing with [...]
Defining a Business from the Outset
When you start out in business, it can be very tempting to just take any work that comes your way. All those who have started out without a security cushion (read: rich parents to fall back on) know the feeling of wondering if there will be enough money for food this month. When a job [...]
Seth’s Advice for the (not yet employed) Kollel Guy
Seth wrote a great post for the unemployed college graduate, of which there are many today. But that advice can easily be applied to anyone looking to get out of kollel. If you have the foresight to see the end coming, you may even have time to do his plan before things get desperate. As [...]
