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Apply today at: W357 S8715 Chapman Lane Eagle, WI 262-594-3244 Reinventing Self ... 231619003 from page 1 co-founded 98 to Go, a company based in Atlanta. Until then, the Brookhaven resident was a vice president of marketing research for Turner Entertainment. ���It was a great ride but I couldn���t control the economy so I responded to it and reinvented myself,��� he said. A year after his lay-off in 2009, Spring said, he was helping a client develop website traffic for his business using internet marketing and was struck by how successful their efforts were. The client was so 2 GREATERmilwaukeeJOBS ��� April 4 2013 231720009 414-649-0795 for more information. Christian Values & Ethics 1670 Miller Park Way ��� West Milwaukee, WI 53214 www.cuw.edu/go/medicalassistant pleased that he suggested they launch a business that would help other companies have the same peace of mind. In 2011, he and Spring launched 98 to Go, specifically to create content that attracts traffic to business websites and to convert site visitors to leads and customers. A year and half later, 98 to Go is on track to turn a profit, he said. While the economy was the driving force in Spring���s remake, it is less a factor for the vast majority of people, which is evidence, Nichols said, that unprecedented access to information is doing more than informing us about the external environment. It is showing us opportunities to make money or find job satisfaction. Boomers like Spring started nearly half of new U.S. businesses recently, according to Kansas City���s Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which tracks and encourages entrepreneurship. Many were pushed into those careers by the difficult job market. Baby Boomers between 55 and 64 created 21 percent of new companies in 2011, up from 14 percent in 1996, a foundation study shows. Those 45 to 54 created 28 percent of companies, with younger entreprenuers starting the remainder. Jarrett Helms, 36, and Amanda Brown, 44, are good examples of the new crop of entrepreneurs. Brown, a former teacher and interior designer, said she just wasn���t happy with her life. She finally decided to jump ���off the hamster wheel��� and start over. ���I discovered that in letting go, the pieces that eluded me, the parts of my life that I wanted most, were right there in front of me,��� Brown said. ���Things did not have to be perfect in order for perfect things to happen.��� And so in July 2011, Brown said she had a ���come to Amanda moment��� and replanned her entire life. Within months, she���d whittled her worldly goods down to two suitcases ��� a big green one for house contents and a little gray one for office supplies. On Jan. 17, 2012, Brown set out to travel the world ��� taking photographs and writing about them, with a goal of them becoming a profitible career. ���I have rid myself of the American anxiety and know exactly what I want to do with my life instead of thinking about it and dreaming about it,��� she said in a telephone interview from France. ���I think I will hit the tipping point when people discover my photography prints and I get a children���s publisher.��� It does not always mean more money. Happiness also plays a role in their choices. see REINVENTING SELF . . . page 7 If working with a slacker drives you nuts . . . By Diane Stafford The Kansas City Star If a recent survey of 549 workers is typical ��� and I���m sure it is ��� more than nine out of 10 employees can name at least one co-worker who doesn���t pull his or her weight. And at least one in four of those surveyed said their own work increases as a result. Drives you crazy, right? Ideally, sub-par performance conversations are held between managers and their direct reports, and slackers who don���t meet standards are let go. In the real world, though, that doesn���t always happen. So what to do if you���re miserable at work with an obvious, unaccountable slacker? Joseph Grenny, who cowrote ���Crucial Confrontations,��� says only 10 percent of co-workers tackle the challenge of confronting slacker peers in the workplace. Most keep quiet and carry on for good reasons: They don���t think speaking up will make a difference; they don���t want to hurt existing relationships; they don���t think it���s their place; they fear retaliation, or they simply don���t know how to broach the subject. But if you���re up for a performance-improvement attempt, here are Grenny���s tips to try to hold a peer accountable: ��� Don���t charge into a blame game. Start a conversation with the slacker as a ���curious friend��� instead of an angry co-worker. ��� Be sure to tell your coworker that you have mutual goals (even if you���re not sure). Explain why you���re concerned. ��� Be specific. Share facts. Describe the work gap between what���s expected by the organization and what���s delivered. ��� Ask if your sub-performing co-worker sees the situation differently from you. Let him or her know you���re open to hearing a different perspective. Good workers, who are sincerely concerned about quality and productivity, sometimes decide to intervene. But it requires finesse to not make bad situations worse. The goal is to avoid exacerbating your individual stress, damaging group morale or harming the organization. In the end, if you can���t stay silent or if your intervention attempts don���t seem to improve the situation, you have a decision: Stay and accept the inequality of labor ��� or leave. 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