What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

a. Make a list of five things you are good at.
b. Then make a second list of five things you love to do.
c. Then make a third list of where the first two lists overlap.
d. Read that list. Ask yourself, “Will anyone pay me to do these
things?”
5. If you’re dying to be your own boss, but still have no idea what
business to go into, try this: go to O*Net (www.​onetonline.​org).
Click on Find Occupations, then, underneath it, click on Career
Cluster. Look at that list and see if any cluster appeals to you. Jot it
down on that piece of paper. Then go back to the home page and
under Advanced Search, click on Browse by O*Net Data. You will
see there are nine subheadings beneath that title: Abilities, Interests,
Knowledge, Skills, Work Activities, Work Context, Work Values,
Skills Search, and Tools and Technology. Click on each of those nine,
in turn, and jot down anything that proves to be attractive or
interesting, again, on that piece of paper.
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Hopefully, from all this thinking, and tasks, you will have some ideas. It
will be nice if you see the possibilities of three different business ventures.
But if there’s one of the three that you would really die to do, and you feel
passionate about it, then explore that one first. Second. And third!
Now, what you want to do next is read up on all the virtues and perils of
running your own business. Look before you leap! The Internet has tons of
stuff about this. For example:
Free Agent Nation
www.​workforce.​com/​articles/​dan-pink-interview-free-agentnation-evolves
Daniel Pink, before he became famous for such books as Drive and To
Sell Is Human, was the first to call attention to how many people were
refusing to work for any employer. He defined them as free agents. His
classic book was Free Agent Nation. His basic thesis: self-employment
has become a broader concept than it was in another age. The concept
now includes not only those who own their own business but also free