With the decision to give up summer sales, I became a full time freelancer. Although I don’t have much time under my belt being completely self-employed, I have discovered a couple of financial challenges.

Getting into the MBA school of your choice takes several years of hard work and preparation. You need to start as you near graduation from your undergrad.

One of my favorite professors once told my class that getting a good job would take at least two years and that we needed to start immediately. I took that advice to heart.

My wife and I were fortunate to graduate with four year degrees without a penny in debt. Since I firmly believe that you can also graduate debt free, I want to share some suggestions based on what we did.

I recently wrote about how to start a home based business. The very first step is to come up with an idea for your business. I want to delve a little more into this phase and give some suggestions.

In the first part of 6 Steps to starting a home business, I wrote about generating ideas, selecting your legal and taxable business structure, and creating a legal, taxable business entity. In this second part, I’ll cover the next three important steps.

The purpose of this post is to give you a basic overview of how to go about starting a business. I’ve broken the six points into two posts so that I have enough space to do each point justice.

Reasons to get an MBA include career change, job requirement, better pay, lower unemployment rate and more sex. Check it out.