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He also highly recommends reading “48 Days to the Work You Love.”

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He also highly recommends reading “48 Days to the Work You Love.”

Has anyone read this book?

I'm gainfully employed and lucky to be in a pretty safe industry - at least for now.

However, I'd be very interested in working for myself in a more portable career so we could easily move to a different area.

I see a lot of books out there about starting businesses, but frankly, most can be distilled into a) go into some permutation of sales (i.e. the focus is on sales and not on products) b) buy a franchise or c) find a gazillion dollar idea, attract investors, etc.

I think I'm like most people - I don't want to "strike it rich" - I just want a business where I can work hard and support my family and be independent and have a reasonable chance of staying afloat. But the reality is, we have a mortgage, expenses, etc. I can't just quit and start from scratch, and if I had a quarter million dollars in investment capital well, I wouldn't need to start a business.

Then there are the regulatory/tax hurdles.

Anyone familiar with some more practical guides to starting a small business that they could recommend? Something that skips the pie in the sky generalities and the get-rich-quick schemes and gives some concrete advice about building a small, entrepreneurial business without being pre-wealthy?