Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
When Nicholas Richardson was laid off in February, he was blindsided. He quickly realized there weren’t many firms looking to increase their payrolls, so he took matters into his own hands: He hired himself.
With a lot of help and support from his friends, family and his professional network, Richardson is slowly but surely making his dreams a reality. The best part of his new situation? He is his own boss.
“Opening my own [law-firm] practice was always a long-term goal, but I hadn’t done any of the groundwork to make my startup feasible because it wasn’t a plan for 2009 or in this economy,” Richardson says. “I spent a lot of time researching what I needed to do, and then made a list that’s slowly getting checked off.”
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