When You Can’t Find a Job, Start a Business

Looking for work can be painful.   Looking for work can be worse than actually working.   Some people get so frustrated looking for work they decide, “the heck with it,” and start their own businesses.   In a recent article in the New York Times one enterprising young man,  Alex Andon, started building jellyfish aquariums and selling them to restaurants and such.  He is now preparing a desktop model for marketing and production.

As the article attest, plenty of laid of workers, frustrated by the job search are designing business plans.   With the eocnomy in the downturn, they figure no time is like the present to start their own businesses.   From this we can expect to see technological breakthroughs and innovations in every industry.  We should be seeing new developments in the sciences and energy sectors, stemming from the engineers and scientists who are out of work.

For most entrepreneurs it is not so much big dreams as bringing in some cash that drives them to open up a busienss.  They are not necessarily looking to become the next mega corporation but rather a business successful enough to bring in revenue.  One consideration with the multi-antionals stumbling as they are in this economy, maybe they aren’t as functional as we once believed.   Perhaps it is time to regenerate small businesses that are flexible and responsive to their customers’ needs.

At Corra Group we wish them well.   It is good to witness the resilience of our American spirit.   It is more telling than bailout plans and any stimulus package.  People when pressed, get real about their needs.  We also encourage new businesses to conduct business research to be sure their new clients can afford to pay them and that any ventures they entertain are not with questionable companies of ill reputation.

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