Last night on an unanticipated trip for some carry-out to my local eatery El Azteco in downtown East Lansing, I had the radio tuned to Michigan Radio, WUOM, and Marketplace was on. I really do enjoy Marketplace, and Kai Ryssdal, but last night I happened upon an excellent commentary by Charles Handy, a dude that I’ve never heard of, but now I’ll be paying a lot more attention to.

My favorite quote of his from the story was this: “if you are your own boss, it’s up to you how hard you work, or where, or when, or why.” And he doesn’t talk about this just in the context of being a strike out on your own entrepreneur, but also as an corporate entrepreneur working for someone else.

You can read about the story here, and download an Mp3 of his commentary here, but I will tell you what Charles Handy was talking about was absolutely the essence of what The Working Stiff blog is all about, particularly my post about the best investment you can make is in yourself. I highly recommend that you listen to this post. I found it to be fan-freakin-tastic!