transitions
6 articles — every number sourced from our courses.
Blue Collar After White Collar: Making the Identity Shift
The class objection that stops desk workers from starting trade businesses, where the sentence came from, and the honest numbers on the other side of it.
Gig Apps as Bridge Income: What Uber, DoorDash, and TaskRabbit Actually Pay
The verified gross and net hourly numbers for Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, TaskRabbit and the rest, after expenses and self-employment tax, with the fees nobody advertises.
Health Insurance After Quitting Your Job: The Real Numbers
COBRA versus the marketplace, priced with 2026 figures: the subsidy cliff at $62,600, zero-premium bronze plans, and the deadlines that cost people money.
How to Start a Business While Keeping Your Job
The dual-track method: fifteen to twenty honest hours a week, a defended calendar, paycheck rules, and three tests that decide when the business replaces the salary.
Laid Off? A 90-Day Plan That Isn't a Pep Talk
A week-by-week ninety-day plan after a layoff: count your runway, negotiate severance, file unemployment the right week, and hit checkpoints that decide for you.
Will AI Take Your Next Business Idea? How to Tell
Five questions and a zero-to-ten exposure score that sort what AI replaces from what it only accelerates, with real scored examples and the verdicts that killed ideas.