Yes, you CAN return to a 'real job' from self-employment, IF you design self-employment as a career stage that drives your professional growth and skills. When you design self-employment for sustained career growth, you gain experience and skills that open up new avenues for different types of self-employment and that qualify you for different types of corporate positions.Working parents; working family caregivers helping the elderly; and the newly and nearly retired will find this course invaluable to understanding how to design self-employment as a mode of career growth -- not as a one -way ticket out of the corporate world. This fast-paced course shows you: how to understand the key elements of freelance success for continual career growth through self-employment; how to analyze the true risks of both self and staff employment; how to translate freelance experience to win a better job than the one you left; and why now is a unique economic moment to pursue strategic self-employment. Five worksheets show students how the ‘moving parts’ fit together and how to apply strategic self-employment approaches to career and life decisions. And, the course includes a strategic step that anybody can take immediately, at no cost or risk, to explore the potential for self-employment and gain insights that are useful whether pursuing staff or self employment.